Taken-for-granted belief patterns are politically invented human products, not natural or inevitable

Evidence

First of all we begin to recognize that the patterns of belief and behavior that we were once unaware of are suddenly in front of us as the product of centuries of human action and politically motivated invention. They are not the result of nature, and they are not inevitable. They are products of centuries of human cultural labor that create an overall taken-for-granted mindset. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 587

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the opening claim of the reader’s ‘Grafting & Growth’ companion by giving the teachable announcement that cultural patterns are invented, non-inevitable maps to be critiqued.
• XREF: connects to: Taken-for-granted language reproduces value hierarchies and centric thinking — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 124; Ideologies are crafted as political weapons, not theories — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 433; Humans rationalize arbitrary customs post hoc rather than recognizing their contingency (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Ideologies are crafted as political weapons, not theories #expands (0.92) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 433
• Belief systems are creative inventions of a tiny minority diffused as unexamined packages #expands (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1869
• Political theories are forms determined by social content, not freely chosen options. #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 580
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #contradicts (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210
• Human identity is constructed and occasionally invented, not natural and stable #exemplifies (0.82) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 839
• Political identity is learned, not an innate hidden self #exemplifies (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 241
• Humans rationalize arbitrary customs post hoc rather than recognizing their contingency #corroborates (0.78)
• Society results from improbable contingent events, not natural human action #corroborates (0.77) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 15
• Belief system coherence is socially, not logically, driven #qualifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1857