Learning Santa Claus is not real is by convention regarded as the first red pill in western societies. Are there equivalent first-false-consciousness-punctured markers in other societies? I can’t think of one for India.
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When I was about 7 me and friends developed a compromise form of Clausianism whereby he did exist but in many cases parents provided presents on his behalf. I guess an attempt to make things cohere but more akin to liberal than fundamentalist religion.
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It's kayfabe.
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I actually have fairly clear memories as a child of burgeoning doubt after trying to analyze the Santa Clause idea in terms of houses visited / time to accomplish all in one night and realizing that Santa would have to move unreasonably fast.
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IMO distinction between kayfabe and sincere belief is blurry enough to be of little use. I like the concept of "incentivated belief", a cousin of "motivated reasoning". Adults' shared belief in things such as fiat money, rule of law, democracy, or equality of opportunities...
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are identical to belief in Santa Claus with the one and only distinction that the latter are prescribed to expire at a given age
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chewable kayfabe
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In my experience, not kayfabe enough at 5 to know to pull their punches when beating the non-believer.
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I remember it being a pretty literal belief around age 5, and by 9 or 10 it had been shattered by empirical investigation
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