Ture. But this can get particularly tricky because in any number of historical and cultural contexts, this is not done cynically at all. The authority fugures really do believe in what they instruct the children to believe in. In fact the indoctrination itself can actually be pursued out of love for the children. That’s why it is often so effective.
This is so insidious that we hold within our behaviours what, Slavoz Zizek calls “Unknown Knows”; a set of ideas we consider self evidently true that lead to us behaving in ways that we do not even realise are part of our conditioning. These endemic assumptions; these things taken for granted, make up our very social selves to such a degree that we are blissfully unaware that they are in fact historically and culturally idiosyncratic.
This is the first step in the process of the myth of objectivism. The constructed social being is unaware of the danger of his position. His childhood certainties gradually become challenged and the social being faces cognitive dissonance, which is met with exceptionalism and denial.
This creates a fearful view. Society is starting to fragment. It is at this time that he seeks the warm cosy reassurance of like-minded people. Those that share his endemic delusional swaddlings. Sure, that somewhere in the social maelstrom there must be others like himself that share the same set of delusions.
Objectivists are simply children looking for the warm safety of the myth that there are universal truths, and that morals can be scientifically determined.
They used to call this religion, and still do. Objectivism is nothing more than a religion without the god.
I can agree with much of this, sure. Though the actual relationships here will always be enormously complex because the number of variables [and permutations of variables] can vary considerably from individual to individual.
Now the reason I ordered it as I did in the op is related to the manner in which I construe human identity rooted in dasein.
That’s why, in my signature, along with the psychology of objectivism, I also include this thread:
What’s crucial here then is that I am assuming that an individual has come to embody the psychology of objectivism either because she was indoctrinated as a child to swallow it whole or, later, as a more autonomous adult, she was able to largely transcend this indoctrination and has come upon – through philosophy or political involvement or one or another eventful experience – a point of view that she is now convinced is wholly rational or moral or just.