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So Much Of What You Know Is Not From Your Own Mind
With our minds always attune to human speech and socialization, we often just believe what we hear
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
We learn from others about what is what.
People, up until AI and our recent isolation within our bubbles, evolved as a very social species. How we are quickly changing is an article for another time. This time, we will talk about how what you learn is repeated, replicated, and reinforced by our socialization.
Slogans Heroes
Here are a few phrases you have likely heard. They generally pair one word with one or more other words and your memory records them that way:
America is the greatest country on Earth. Anything is possible. Stay positive. Don’t be a Doomer. Gen Z is lazy. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Hugs not drugs. Nobody wants to work anymore. Republicans are ignorant. Meat is murder. Build the wall. Bless our troops. Make America Great Again. Boys will be boys. Everything happens for a reason. Christians are persecuted.
We could go on all day with these. One way to tell if you have a meme of language, or low-bar…