Beliefs Creation

Empathizing | Systemizing | Objectification | Embodiment

Objectification and Essentializing

The hardest part of this project to describe is the aspect of Belief Creation. How people come to their beliefs.

I think a good example is showing how beliefs in Racism and Misogyny are created by the same process. Those 2 seemingly separate issues are the same with regard to how people come to such beliefs.

The term we use in this analysis technique for Emotional Attachment is: Objectification.

Like most terms it has more than a single context. In the context of belief creation, it has to do with the possessive nature of the ego.

Objectification is not a bad thing in itself, it's just the way the ego works. One can Objectify good ideas that promote social harmony, and/or one can objectify egotistic and therefor violent ideas. Objectification has 2 sides to it in the sense of good or bad.

In the case of Racism and Misogyny, the cause is the same. Objectified bad ideas. Objectification describes the emotional attachment to an idea.

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The bad idea itself is described by the term: Essentialized. An essentialized idea in the case of racism and misogyny are low-info and incorrect understandings. Consequently racists and misogynists become emotionally attached to that idea, and see domination as a right.

See egotistical beliefs all have the same process. A strong emotional attachment to an expectation of supremacy.

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Essentializing has a good aspect as well. When we first try to grasp any concept, we first get a 'rough idea' of that concept. See Essentialized ideas as one of the first steps in learning. Essentializing is one of the first stages of developing rational ideas.

An example of a good use of essentializing is: "Let me first get a gist of this, and then increase my understanding to a rational level via study."

An example of a bad use of essentializing is: :"All Women are such and such....All Blacks are such and such...All Italians are such and such...All Liberals are such and such"

Objectification being an emotional attachment to an idea, the confluence of the Objectification of Essentialized ideas of 'people' describes both racism and misogyny. That's the "Belief-Creation" process which concerns this project in a nutshell.