I’m not saying you’re wrong because I can’t truly know how other people learn. What I can say is that my personal experience and observations suggest that it’s more complex than this. For example, I was very deep in the religious brainwashing. And that was the case for most of my life. It wasn’t until someone logically and rationally started to contradict my false beliefs in a very direct manner. Not with religion, but with the state of the world. Corruption of government, lies that hollywood spread, and industry capture of large institutions. I didn’t accept everything this person told me but it was enough to make me ask questions. It was very uncomfortable for me. I felt depressed and really lost for a long time. This led to a snowball effect where I began to question everything. As I started to notice these inconsistencies between societal beliefs and reality, questioning things became easier. Truth and how it made me feel didn’t matter anymore. But why was it easier for me to see things this way compared to others? This is where our unique human characteristics come in. Our beliefs are influenced through a combination of our genetic predispositions and our life experiences. I witnessed and experienced abuse as a child. This created an antagonistic attitude toward authority figures. That’s my belief but I can’t prove it since I can’t experiment on my childhood in order to prove my personality would be different without the abuse. I certainly don’t believe abuse is necessary for someone to question authority. But I can’t help but look to these experiences of abuse and not feel like they really shaped how I think. As a kid, I felt powerless when being mistreated by others (e.g. parents, teachers, older kids). I remember playing basketball at the park when I was younger with friends. These older kids would show up and tell us to get off the court so they can play. I thought that was unfair so I’d refuse. My friends were scared and they would get off. I remember literally continuing to play by myself while the older kids tried to play around me. Then they’d get frustrated and start pushing me off the court. They’d kick my ball and force me to chase after it. I remember one time the sprinklers turned on for the grass nearby so I went and rotated it so that it sprayed the entire court. If I can’t play, no one can. I was the only one like this in my friend group. I hated seeing people treated unfairly. And I had first hand experience seeing people with more power mistreat me. So I developed what I believe to be a healthy skepticism of others. I’ve seen people that love me lie to my face. And I’ve seen those same people tell me that lying is wrong. Many on nostr have similar personalities but they vary in how extreme they can be. So as I’m being exposed to all this new world shattering information, I began to ask myself: what if this person is right? What would that mean? I didn’t accept everything as truth but I just reflected on what that would mean. I think Socrates or Plato said that it’s a sign of an intelligent man who can entertain an idea without completely accepting it. Then it was just a matter of time for me to be exposed to the information. That’s when the cracks in religion started to form in my mind. Nothing could have stopped me from finding the answers after that. Without these conditions in place, I’d still be a brainwashed NPC on my knees praying to the sky. So what are the conditions for others to see the world this way? To have the open mind to break out of the brainwashing? There’s no way to know and even if we did know, there’s no way to force those conditions onto other people.