Great thinking. Just the other day I knew of a girl who is joining a civil movement and asked if my country should officially apologize for slavery or not. And I thought: that would make it seem as though slavery is in the past and doesn't exist anymore. It's the oldest trick in the book. The marketing of a Free World is such that people see slavery everyday, but by calling it something else, they magically make it go away. I think you got it very right when you focus on reprogramming the mind and striving to understand what the mind is and how concepts are created. It reminds me of Roland Barthes' Mythologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythologies_(book) and the importance of questioning ideologies. In fact I think ideologies in general are an enemy of free thinking. They are like mental parasites, keeping the host alive and comfortable while sucking the life out of them, slowly...
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great thinking. not many can think like this and indeed stops the argument before escalating.
I usually add to this "assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups".