False consciousness. An enumeration of false consciousness stories. Everyone in the world is deceived except you and your group. Usually contains a seed of truth, but overstates it and ignores/downplays contrary perspectives.
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Most ideologies develop a false consciousness narrative. It makes them feel special, like insiders, like they cracked the code, and now they are part of the secret club, the cool kids, not like all those heathen masses
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Scientology; thetan spirits haunt you. You need dianetics to purge them.
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CrossFit: everyone else is pursuing looks or big numbers out of vanity; we are building “functional” strength
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Veganism: eating animals is sadistic and murderous and bloodthirsty. Omnivory is a great evil and you are oblivious to it, strangely complicit to animal suffering, which is no different from human suffering.
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Ethnic nationalism: morality, intelligence, virtue, and civilization are mostly determined by race and racial homogeneity.
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Buddhism: samsara is an endless cycle of rebirth caused by your desires. You must escape it by mastering your mind
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Neoliberalism: despite what you think, the world is just fine as it is, and in fact, it is getting better in every way. Everyone thinks there is something wrong but there is not
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What’s interesting about this one is that I think that it deliberately plays on being counter-intuitive to seem plausible. It’s a little like people who say, “Why doesn’t the media broadcast good stories?” Jordan Peterson is somewhat susceptible to this.
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