This isn't the correct frame. This analogy could be made but it has no past explanatory power nor any future predictive power.
Humans are social animals and our nervous system is hard wired to survive by creating temporary and permanent alliances with different members of our tribe. The exchange is that your allies get your physical labour and you get access to their resources.
The exchange of physical labour requires that the individual seeking an alliance with a larger group onboards the value system of the group, usually entirely.
Or, to put it another way, our nervous systems is hard wired to beleive what our allies believe, few to no exceptions.
Or more broadly, if an individuals alliance is to the whole of their city, state or country, whomever controls the various media and power structures controls what the individual believes.
This has explanatory power: if you track a persons alliances over time you can directly map what they believed without ever interviewing the person.
This also has predictive power: if you want to change someones mind, you don't have a conversation with them and try to convince them with logic. Instead, you gain control over the media and power structures and they will believe whatever you want them believe.
Human civilization has always worked like this. It has nothing to do with logic, schizophrenia or similar analogies even if somewhat applicable as a referenc epoint.
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