Radical Curiosity
Reclaim your mental freedom
Russell Storey
Author
From the Foreword of Radical Curiosity
Radical Curiosity explores twelve modern dogmas - or mogmas - assumptions so widely accepted they are rarely examined.
They are not presented as lies, nor as conspiracies, but as beliefs that have quietly shaped culture, policy and personal judgment.
Each chapter takes one such assumption and traces how it formed, how it gained authority and what happens when questioning it becomes socially costly.
Radical Curiosity does not ask the reader to adopt a new worldview. It asks them to notice how worldviews take hold in the first place.
Radical Curiosity shows how collective delusion does not require deception or bad faith.
It emerges when emotion replaces understanding, when narrative substitutes for evidence and when sincerity is mistaken for truth.
Under these conditions, entire societies can drift away from reality while remaining convinced of their own moral clarity.
Radical Curiosity approaches such moments without accusation. It is less interested in blame than in understanding how confusion becomes normal - and how it sustains itself.
Radical Curiosity requires self-responsibility. To see more clearly is not a passive achievement. It demands courage, discipline and a willingness to act without the comfort of consensus.
Upgrading our thinking does not mean optimisation or moral superiority. It means cultivating the capacity to think independently, to tolerate uncertainty and to take responsibility for one's own judgements. nder these conditions, entire societies can drift away from reality while remaining convinced of their own moral clarity.
Radical Curiosity begins inward, before it ever turns outward.
“Radical Curiosity is the courage to question everything - not out of reflexive suspicion, but from a commitment to truth deeper than comfort.”
From the introduction of Radical Curiosity