maybe doublethink is good maybe if the truth is too easily subverted it's good to fence it around with lies that you have to pretend to believe or be punished damned hard to believe it though
that's a variety of faith if I'm reading you correctly. seems very close to the formulation of Pascal's Wager.
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Whether or not this is "negative faith", I don't know. But what I'm talking about has nothing particularly rational about it. It's almost a reflective realization "My beliefs are not in my control here, on this topic that has hurt me so", or something like that.
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that's a really interesting transitional step between justified belief and automatic/involuntary belief (need a better word for that, maybe orthodoxy?) first you become aware that you have an unjustified belief and perhaps that you can't justify it. the next step is to shed it.
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Yeah, the transitionality of the state seems to be essential. However, I think the next step could be either way (shed the belief, or realize its truth). Sometimes the unconscious is correct and it is the rational that is deceived. E.g. stepping out of a false consciousness.
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