It totally depends on how one thinks people can live with and deal with unmet expectations ;-)
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Do you think that most people will be better off if they systematically expect the world to be different than it is? That is not a trivial question, IMHO.
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Best by which measure? Best for whom?
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Some possible suggestions for evaluating outcomes: median standard of living, level of violence, amount and cost of coercion, stability of social order, economical and ecological sustainability, cultural production.
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Any truth that isn't believed is akin to self harm. Some people will never accept the possibility of an alternative"best outcome" if they haven't chosen it for themselves. I find the question pointless. Interesting, but pointless.
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A working, prosperous society requires that most people converge on shared norms that serve a community much larger and diverse than the people they know, and are thus not naturally inclined to care about. Religion and ideology have been invented to produce that convergence.
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"society*everybody*taught" That would be the magic restart button. The problem i see is the transition from now to that "everybody"
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Changing beliefs is usually happening on a gradient, where the cost of every partial belief change is balanced by a benefit. While neurotypicals usually have little agency over their political beliefs, their community leaders often do, and deprogramming is in principle possible.
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I meant to go for "go for full enlightenment". It's never been tried before ;)
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Due to the way I grew up, and also because of how my brain works, full enlightenment always seemed obvious to me. Now I realize that most political philosophy (including religion) thinks otherwise, and may have a point (other than trying to hide how evil it is). I don't know!
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