i have spent a lot of time and dollars reading things and learning about situations and my worldview has developed as a result of that process
if you have not spent a lot of time reading similar things and encountering similar situations, your worldview probably does not look like mine and i understand that this is why my blog will never be popular
i of course have had the experience of reading an article where the author is responding to like 5 different intellectual currents that i am not familiar with and consequently gleaning only like 20% of their message from it as a result. i still had to write papers on those articles
for people who are white and Protestant and who never had any humanities training, i wonder how familiar they are with that situation. i wonder what their response is to it
@Lady But I dunno, I think you can just do that to yourself? I can't imagine it's THAT uncommon. I first read The Cyberpunk Manifesto in late-middle-school or early-high-school? Shoutout to the Old Boys Network. I didn't understand a word of it.
@gaditb oh, i definitely agree that you can give yourself humanities training, but that is not to say everybody does
@gaditb the dominant culture in the United States is (a couple of specific kinds of) Protestant, so they would be the most likely to view their worldview as default. i think Catholicism (and, for the record, things like Mormonism) are different enough that you build some level of awareness that not everybody thinks by you by the time you reach adulthood
@Lady Where does "Protestant" come in here? Is it essay-things from the Pope (like the recent Magificent Humans one), if Catholic?