"Imagine finding out as a teen that your entire social support structure-- teachers, pastors, even your own parents-- have been cogs in a giant lie-manufacturing machine."
Not to be pedantic (me, pedantic?), but I think that statement needlessly attributes malicious intent to simple incorrectness. If you had said "incorrectness-manufacturing machine" or "illogic-manufacturing machine", I could have gotten behind you. I prefer to believe that, in most cases, the parents, pastors, and teachers BELIEVE what they teach. That means they aren't lying, they're wrong, and there's a world of difference there. The amount of betrayal one can reasonably be expected to feel as a result of being lied to is far in excess of the amount one can be expected to feel merely by being misinformed.
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Date: 2006-11-15 01:16 am (UTC)Not to be pedantic (me, pedantic?), but I think that statement needlessly attributes malicious intent to simple incorrectness. If you had said "incorrectness-manufacturing machine" or "illogic-manufacturing machine", I could have gotten behind you. I prefer to believe that, in most cases, the parents, pastors, and teachers BELIEVE what they teach. That means they aren't lying, they're wrong, and there's a world of difference there. The amount of betrayal one can reasonably be expected to feel as a result of being lied to is far in excess of the amount one can be expected to feel merely by being misinformed.