ketobeejay on Nostr: I grew up in an era when indoctrination was not so plain to me (1970s). I also was ...

I grew up in an era when indoctrination was not so plain to me (1970s). I also was raised in a household where one of my parents was heavily involved in civic/municipal organizations and activities (city council, being on first-name basis with representatives in D.C. because of their job, etc.), all basically very statist, but believing everything they did was for good reason/causes. As a child, it was much easier to believe in certain things that way, unfortunately, and much harder to untangle oneself from this way of life/unlearn this way of thinking. When I was in my early twenties, I was much too busy working in offices in the public & private sector and focused on my career, to know any better...which was a result of another thing ruining me at the time (2nd-wave feminism).