Are reassuring falsehoods not central to group identity and continuously re-making and strengthening those identities? Demonstrating and performing orthodox beliefs tied you to the group. I mean like shared belief in religious concepts or national myths, for example, many of which would be reassuring rather than negatively formed (ie not supremacist).
This could be for example, we Irish people have the best sense of humour. It really is what makes us who we are. Or we Christians give so much charity and are so altruistic, it's central to who we are.
Are reassuring falsehoods not central to group identity and continuously re-making and strengthening those identities? Demonstrating and performing orthodox beliefs tied you to the group. I mean like shared belief in religious concepts or national myths, for example, many of which would be reassuring rather than negatively formed (ie not supremacist).
This could be for example, we Irish people have the best sense of humour. It really is what makes us who we are. Or we Christians give so much charity and are so altruistic, it's central to who we are.