> pardon my very cynical elitism, but most people are very impulsive and just believe in the shit their parents taught them without question. this even applies to most atheists; many lose their faith because their parents just sucked at teaching them. if it was truly authentic, real grappling with the telos of existence, they wouldn't adopt socially popular ideologies so blindly. it's a matter of language. consider the internet: incomprehensible volumes of information are at everyone's fingertips at all times. how do you find something in that pile of, well, everything, if you either  > don't know what you're looking for, because you've lived your entirely life on (para)social suggestion alone -- because you don't know yourself > don't know what you're looking for is called, because the system you are living in has systematically and methodically reduced your understanding of language down to the bare minimum necessary to be a good drone and not kill yourself it's the delicate nature of language. language isn't just a system of squiggles and noises, it's an organism. it shapes your mind as much as your body -- any thought conceived of in that language, any word uttered in that language. from the contractions of your body necessary to articulate and accentuate through intonation and cadence and so on, to the concepts and principles unique to any one language. (cont.)
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