This is the only reason you feel shame? How does one rid oneself from this ‘indoctrination’?
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why would anyone wish to be rid of this indoctrination? overall, it's track record tends to produce survival-asset behavior in social creatures, irrespective of the social paradigm in which the individual is steeped.
Which amounts to: How does one rid oneself of this "shame?"
The answer would seem to be: So get out of the doctrine, and start walking around on one's own two legs, and actually start LOOKING at the world around one....
Here's an analogy: If I wanted to know "what are the conditions that exist on Sicily?", the only real way to find out would be to go to Sicily and take a look for myself. If instead, I decided to take the easy way out and consult with my like-minded friends -- who are just as indoctrinated and opinionated as I am, engaging in sterotypes and rumors -- I probably wouldn't learn too much of actual value about the real conditions on the ground in Sicily. But I might learn something about my friends, and maybe even myself, if I'm an honest person....
You have to do your own looking, your own seeing, if you are interested in the quest for truth. All the rest is so much doxa, "opinion," which comes to nothing when one is asked to account for the conduct of one's own life, including the conduct of one's own life of reason.
Which seems to me to be Everyman's ultimate fate.
Thanks so much for writing, Heartlander!