The Mythology of What It Is to Be an American

Our subjectivity and the ideas we have about what it is to be an american makes it possible for otherwise decent people not even consider where that meat came from. The same dynamic applies to things that extend beyond nationality, though. Say a big part of your subjectivity or how you view yourself requires that you dress in a very specific style of clothes. Think of the shadows on the cave wall as the distorted, narrow world view often given to someone by mass media and the culture they live in. It lets them navigate existence into something comprehensible. And these structures of the human mind are ultimately what is dictating everything about the way we arrive at these world views.