Malicse, Angelito: Culture and Self-Referential Ignorance: A Philosophical and Sociological Analysis of Cultural Blindness, Cognitive Closure, and Civilizational Development

This paper examines the relationship between culture and self-referential ignorance — a condition in which individuals or societies interpret reality primarily through internally reinforced assumptions while systematically resisting external critique or objective self-examination. Drawing from philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, political theory, and systems science, it analyzes how cultural systems sustain themselves through feedback loops, symbolic structures, institutional author