If you want to get a large group of people to believe a lie, one of the most effective methods is to pick a very small number of lies, and repeat them over and over, as often as possible.
Some of those repeated lies include "The truth hurts", "Confession and penance are dark, unpleasant, and soul-crushing.", "Clear standards are dishearte…
If you want to get a large group of people to believe a lie, one of the most effective methods is to pick a very small number of lies, and repeat them over and over, as often as possible.
Some of those repeated lies include "The truth hurts", "Confession and penance are dark, unpleasant, and soul-crushing.", "Clear standards are disheartening and make people leave.", "Treating important things with care, formality, or concern for details scares people off."
Escaping this nonsense starts with questioning it. Once you've questioned, you have to get to the truth somehow or other. Once you've gotten to the truth, you still need a lot of courage to do things that you thought were harmful before, because your emotions and expectations were formed by the lie.
I was thinking today about the expression "soft bigotry of low expectations" in a completely different context, but your comment suggests it fits very well in this one, too.
If you want to get a large group of people to believe a lie, one of the most effective methods is to pick a very small number of lies, and repeat them over and over, as often as possible.
Some of those repeated lies include "The truth hurts", "Confession and penance are dark, unpleasant, and soul-crushing.", "Clear standards are disheartening and make people leave.", "Treating important things with care, formality, or concern for details scares people off."
Escaping this nonsense starts with questioning it. Once you've questioned, you have to get to the truth somehow or other. Once you've gotten to the truth, you still need a lot of courage to do things that you thought were harmful before, because your emotions and expectations were formed by the lie.
I was thinking today about the expression "soft bigotry of low expectations" in a completely different context, but your comment suggests it fits very well in this one, too.