it’s a really valuable (if expensive and painful) exercise … you might learn something
Those two thoughts don’t seem to match well. If you think it’s valuable enough to be worth the expense and the pain, presumably you have a better description of the potential payoff other than “learn something”?
The payoff is the shock of, “Wait! A lot of the customs and ideas that my ingroup thinks are obviously inherently good, aren’t actually what I want now that I understand more about the world, and I predict that my ingroup friends would substantially agree if they knew what I knew, but I can’t just tell them, because from their perspective it probably just looks like I suddenly went crazy!”
I know, that’s still vague. The reason I’m being vague is because the details are going to depend on your ingroup, and which hated outgroup’s body of knowledge you chose to study. Sorry about this.
Those two thoughts don’t seem to match well. If you think it’s valuable enough to be worth the expense and the pain, presumably you have a better description of the potential payoff other than “learn something”?
The payoff is the shock of, “Wait! A lot of the customs and ideas that my ingroup thinks are obviously inherently good, aren’t actually what I want now that I understand more about the world, and I predict that my ingroup friends would substantially agree if they knew what I knew, but I can’t just tell them, because from their perspective it probably just looks like I suddenly went crazy!”
I know, that’s still vague. The reason I’m being vague is because the details are going to depend on your ingroup, and which hated outgroup’s body of knowledge you chose to study. Sorry about this.
So if my attitude is already this, can I skip the pain and the expense? :-)