Growing up my parents were strict authoritarian religious liberals. They never questioned their beliefs, and I never had any framework for doing so either. Your typical “raised under a rock” type.
In college my roommate was a Texas Republican. I’m from New England. He had a lot of ideas I’d never heard before, but he had solid arguments to defend them. That was the first time I realized I only believed what I believed because everyone around me had always believed the same stuff.
A few years later I saw the zeitgeist movie, and that really opened things up for me.
Edit: also many years later I worked for Bernie’s campaign, which really opened my eyes to just how truly corrupt the establishment Dems are
Growing up my parents were strict authoritarian religious liberals. They never questioned their beliefs, and I never had any framework for doing so either. Your typical “raised under a rock” type.
In college my roommate was a Texas Republican. I’m from New England. He had a lot of ideas I’d never heard before, but he had solid arguments to defend them. That was the first time I realized I only believed what I believed because everyone around me had always believed the same stuff.
A few years later I saw the zeitgeist movie, and that really opened things up for me.
Edit: also many years later I worked for Bernie’s campaign, which really opened my eyes to just how truly corrupt the establishment Dems are