You were too young to consent. That's when they installed the beliefs you now defend.

Before you could evaluate a single idea, you were handed a complete map of reality. What's sacred. What's shameful. What's possible. Who you are.

You didn't examine it. You absorbed it.

Then you grew up and called it your worldview.

So here's the uncomfortable question: when you defend a belief, are you defending truth, or defending the familiarity of something you never actually chose?

A belief you arrived at can survive examination. A belief you inherited tends to flinch from it.

Run the test. Take your strongest conviction. Trace it backward. Did you reach it, or did you wake up already inside it?

Sit with this one.