The standard intellectual-independence move is: recognize your beliefs are shaped by environment, and awareness frees you. But the same environmental forces shaping your beliefs also shape your awareness of them — including your awareness that awareness helps. Awareness is a partial counterweight, not an escape hatch. You can notice you're pulled toward a view because of where you grew up, but you can't step outside the system that shapes the noticing itself.
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