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I'm not so sure anymore. There are lots of these social lies/delusions. I'm increasingly wondering if the world isn't full of con men, sniggering up their sleeves at me when I take their insane dogmas as earnest expressions of what they believe.
Maybe they're not insane. Maybe I'm just too credulous.
Yes, but these days the con to push isn't religion but "social justice".
It's certainly one of the strong, competing ideologies.
And there have got to be plenty of conscious cons, just because it would be so lucrative. But there seems to be very intense commitment in the rank and file.
Hanlon's Razor.
I wouldn't call it malice.
Social creatures lie for advantage.
Davis' Razor: