What is truth? There are facts and statistics, but these are not truth. Conclusions drawn from facts and statistics shift depending on the contextual horizon a man chooses to filter the facts in analysis. Without cognitive bias and sociocultural matrix to limit man's perception, all men will become catatonic with the conflicting set of data flowing through their pathetic senses, of our non-logical universe. Dogmatic beliefs are adaptive mechanisms and cognitive framework to somewhat comprehend the universe around us; too much of so-called "free" thinking and "creativity" will land a man in an insane asylum.
Of course, in the modern, culturally fragmented West celebrating their empty identity, one could argue there exists no matrix, within which a man can construct a cognitive framework to understand his universe. The modern humanist Western man is akin to a sailor attempting to navigate his ship, while rejecting cardinal directions as being "dogmatic" intolerance and without a port of destination.
Without childhood indoctrination, man begets human failures set adrift without direction or purpose. Compared with raising such wastes of meat, it would be eminently preferable to produce ISIS terrorists, who at least possess purpose and direction.
This is what I wonder about. Obviously their a re better outlets than they have chosen but at the end of the day, a lot of the largest problems rely on having a group of people working together, whether it is energy, environmental or starvation solutions. Does it require dogmatism of some kind to activate a group? Does it require lies of some kind to bend individual narratives to come in to line close enough that they are willing to work together?
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Human morality is a deductive reasoning process. One must first begin with an a priori assumption that cannot be proven. For some that assumption is God, for others it is Nature, still for others it is random chaos. All human societies are moral constructs, that is the monocultural matrix demands consent regarding certain "values" from its members. From these values, legal structure and political systems are constructed. Unless parents plan on raising their children outside of human societies and civilization, dogmatism is a necessary ingredient in childrearing.
The problem with international cooperation and global dynamics stems from the lack of a priori consensus in values among disparate culture groups. For many culture groups, first principle assumptions are mutually antithetical, resulting in armed conflicts throughout humanity's brief and pitiful residence on this planet. To raise a child to function adequately within a monocultural matrix of a given society, it seems necessary to indoctrinate him in the dogmatism of that given society.