this is part of why biology vs culture vs circumstances "what makes the man" sort of debates are uninteresting to me, the end result is the same
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if taken as a given that there's a line, somewhere, after which most people will probably never learn to think, b/c/c arguments just reduce to where the line is
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and whether the line is at conception or early childhood or adolescence is relevant for education policy but not much else, certainly not trying to effect this change in grown adults
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there are plenty of illumination narratives among adults but most are really affiliation-switches not consciousness-expansions
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eg "I grew up in a hick town and went to college in the big city and Get It Now" or "I was a good liberal my whole life and took the red pill and Get It Now"
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(read: did not significantly change my mode of understanding/interacting with the world, rather simply acculturated to new values system)
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and the key point with the minority of consciousness-expansion ones is those people *already had the capacity* and just required a precipitating event to grow into it
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and so the task is not to fix all the broken people (majority) but to hew to the self-fixed ones (minority) and also identify and nurture the capable-to-be-self-fixed (minority)
End of conversation
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