On Medium: Are Religionists and Capitalists Mentally Disordered?
Here's an article about the sleight of hand psychiatrists engage in to maintain their discipline's scientific status despite the normativity of their choice to give a pass to widespread craziness.
''Reason pulls us in one direction (towards atheism, secularism, and humanism), while pattern recognition and socialization pull us in another (towards theistic religion, superstition, and conspiracy theories)''
ReplyDeletePattern recognition is fundamental to logical-rational thinking, so it makes no sense see them as belonging to different categories.
I doubt that lack of socialization makes anyone an atheist or skeptic of religion or the opposite.
It may sound very reductionistic, but I believe the most important factor that results in believers and non-believers is their own neurological and/or brain differences.
What happens is a coincidence, as most people tend to become invariably religious and also tend to have a similar psychological and cognitive constitution, there is a correlation between socialization and religiosity and it also happens with any ideological niche such as current wokeism.
Capitalism is an ideological literalization of an antisocial personality profile.Religious belief, on the other hand, is clearly a type of delusional thinking.
But, as of the moment, social and individual productivity is not being negatively affected, so-called psychiatry does not consider it as a disorder.