In this case, if you followed social norms, you would deny the truth about if you like anime or not, and you would pursue something else that would make you less happy.
Why would this happen rather than “you would be pushed into experiences and thought patterns that resolve the highly path-dependent determination of which things you enjoy in a way that makes it smoother for you to bond with the social groups around you”? Here I’m not asserting that the “deny” form is (generally) false, only that it doesn’t seem clearly true. Experiential evidence suggests that there’s a wide gradient, and indeed that alief-preconceptions about how much of one’s identity is social themselves skew the gradient a lot.
Why would this happen rather than “you would be pushed into experiences and thought patterns that resolve the highly path-dependent determination of which things you enjoy in a way that makes it smoother for you to bond with the social groups around you”? Here I’m not asserting that the “deny” form is (generally) false, only that it doesn’t seem clearly true. Experiential evidence suggests that there’s a wide gradient, and indeed that alief-preconceptions about how much of one’s identity is social themselves skew the gradient a lot.