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Often, we confuse respecting a person's dignity with agreeing with their ideas. This common error, known as the Moralistic Fallacy, hinders our ability to distinguish truth from mere desirability.
This post explores how high-control spiritual groups in South India use self-sealing logic and epistemic gaslighting. They rebrand parlor tricks as "Vedic science" to dismantle critical thinking, trapping followers in an "epistemic black hole" and making them dependent on the Guru for their perception of reality.
The digital age has transformed peer pressure into an algorithmic "Super-Peer," influencing youth substance use. Social media's curated content distorts reality, glamorizes drug use, and alters risk assessment among adolescents.
When empirical frameworks are absent, analytical minds redirect their reasoning towards faith. This post explores how social confinement and neural reward systems make faith intellectually rich and psychologically satisfying, and how cognitive foundations and social ecology contribute to this phenomenon.
