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Similar story: https://youtu.be/qlRkLtKqSrY https://youtu.be/qlRkLtKqSrY My perspective: The western scientists are absolutely terrible at understanding psych
by ComradePhil 4y ago
Similar story: https://youtu.be/qlRkLtKqSrY https://youtu.be/qlRkLtKqSrY
My perspective:
The western scientists are absolutely terrible at understanding psychological problems so everything is re-framed as a physiological problems ("it's a chemical imbalance", "you were born with wrong physiology" etc.), which they have mastered.
If someone is raised in a cult, do you change the world to fit that person in or do you help that person fix their beliefs?
The same rule should apply for kids raised in other types of abusive households.
- salawat 4y agoTo someone raised in a cult, or with deeply held beliefs, there is very little difference between the two. In fact "fixing beliefs" is, in a sense, reality resculpting. We are our priors. A large part of our priors are the contents of our mind. Honestly, I shudder at the isea we ever figure out how to "engineer" a belief into a person. As it stands, that is one technology we are not ready to have trivially available.
- ComradePhil 4y agoAnd yet, the media framework have engineered the beliefs that the large masses should think one particular way when it comes to these things very successfully.