an interesting exercise is to momentarily not break people up by ideology or worldview and instead group them by how much they do or do not expect you to accept deferring to already established conclusions made by others without investigating the topic yourself
i had this a lot back when i was more someone who identified with my musical taste. id listen to something and then mention it later and a particular type of person would say “whyd you listen to that? everyone knows its bad”. this type of reaction is extremely fascinating to me
it reveals something about the person having the reaction because what theyre really saying is, havent you already heard the established conclusion on this? whats interesting is that after a long time you see that every ideology or worldview has this spectrum running within it.
so you can take crust punks and classical music students and members of any religion and new age people and painters and people from any group and see this pyramid operating within them. an internal socio-ideo hierarchy
theres an extremely rare type of person who recognizes the toxic effect of completely submitting to the hive mind and group think WHILE ALSO recognizing that having an ideology, worldview and/or set conclusions about reality is not INHERENTLY bad in and of itself, and can be good
for real sometimes i think there must literally be only like 1000 people where these venn diagrams overlap
