A framework revealing how we mistake social products for natural facts, or cultural constructions for universal truths. Fooled by Society Theory shows how we are socialized into seeing the world in particular ways, then mistake that socialized vision for reality itself. What we take for granted—gender, money, justice, truth—are social products, but we experience them as natural. We are fooled when we forget that society made the world we see, and that other societies see differently.
Fooled by Society Theory "Of course that's just how things are, they said—meaning 'that's how our society arranges things.' Fooled by Society: mistaking the social for the natural, the cultural for the universal. The way things are is just the way we've made them. But we forget we made them, so we think they must be this way. Society fools us into seeing its products as nature."
by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026
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