Is a characteristic of totalitarian regimes. The culture props up “the big lie”, which creates major cognitive dissonance because you have to deny the truths you see all around you to maintain the lie.

Having my mind tied up in knots is the thing I most remember from Mormonism.

There are other features of Mormonism that harm normal development. You can’t really be effective in the world while your head is up your butt. Fortunately, the next generation seems to be taking it much less seriously.

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> There are other features of Mormonism that harm
> normal development. You can’t really be
> effective in the world while your head is up your
> butt. Fortunately, the next generation seems to be
> taking it much less seriously.



The smartphone internet is wilder and cheaper than the desktop internet ever was. Add to that the absurdity of Nelson's multiple nightly "revelations," and it starts to look like a comedy club more than a church.

So yes, it looks like almost everyone under about 30 is incapable of taking the whole rules-and-hierarchy thing seriously. No one wants to be probed, accused, and tested at random every time they walk into the building.