A provocative essay like Dr. Vernon Coleman’s “The End of Education” is designed to do one thing extremely well: activate a reaction.

It argues that people have become passive, that modern education suppresses original thinking, and that media repetition manufactures belief. Whether you agree with the author’s conclusions or find them overstated (or inflammatory), the piece is still useful—because it spotlights something real:

Most of what we call “thinking” is often reflex + repetition + identity protection.

And that’s exactly what the Belief Examination GPT was built to work with.

The article isn’t just content — it’s a demonstration

When you read a text like this, notice what happens inside you:

  • Do you feel immediate agreement? (“Yes—finally someone said it.”)

  • Do you feel immediate rejection? (“This is nonsense and dangerous.”)

  • Do you feel a spike of anger, superiority, fear, relief, urgency?

Those reactions matter more than the article’s punchlines.

Because the speed of your certainty is often a clue that something deeper is being protected—your worldview, your sense of safety, your belonging, your identity as “the kind of person who sees through things” or “the kind of person who trusts experts.”

In IAS terms: the belief isn’t the problem—being owned by it is.

Repetition is real. So is selective attention.

One of the strongest points in the essay is this: repetition works. When an idea is repeated by authority figures (teachers, media, institutions), it can settle into us as “obvious.”

That doesn’t automatically make the repeated message true or false. It just means something simpler:

Humans are suggestion-sensitive.

We absorb narratives—especially when they come with social rewards (belonging, approval, status) or social penalties (shame, exclusion).

But there’s a second layer the article mostly skips:
We also repeat our own narratives to ourselves.

  • “People can’t be trusted.”

  • “I’m behind.”

  • “If I relax, everything will fall apart.”

  • “If I question this, I’ll lose my tribe.”

Sometimes the strongest propaganda is internal.

The danger isn’t disagreement — it’s collapse into polarity

Articles like this often encourage binary sorting:

  • “Awake” vs “asleep”

  • “Free-thinkers” vs “collaborators”

  • “Truth” vs “indoctrination”

That framing can feel empowering. It can also quietly shrink your thinking.

Because once you adopt a polarity identity, your mind starts doing what minds do best:

  • collecting confirming evidence

  • ignoring disconfirming evidence

  • rewarding certainty

  • punishing nuance

You don’t become a more original thinker.
You become a more efficient defender of a mental position.

So the real question becomes:

What would it look like to keep your independence without turning certainty into a cage?

What the Belief Examination GPT is for

That’s the purpose of the new tool:

IMMachines: Belief Examination GPT
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69860e4651348191b8aac050b5a35c70-immachines-belief-examination-gpt

This Belief Examination is part of the Identity Awakening System (IAS).
IAS helps people move from inherited identity → conscious awareness → aligned action.

It’s not here to tell you what’s true.
It’s here to help you see how your truth-claims form—and what they do inside your nervous system and your life.

You bring a belief.
The GPT helps you:

  • separate observation from interpretation

  • trace the belief’s origin (authority, experience, social reinforcement)

  • identify what it protects (safety, belonging, control, identity)

  • explore alternative hypotheses (without forcing “the opposite”)

  • design a small reality test

  • choose an aligned next step

IAS does not give you better beliefs.
It gives you the capacity to live without being owned by them.

Try it with this exact article (3 prompts)

If you want to use Coleman’s piece as your first session, paste one of these into the GPT:

  1. Trigger Audit

“Trigger Audit: Reading this article, I feel ______. The belief underneath is ______. Help me separate observation from interpretation.”

  1. Quick Belief Audit

“Quick Belief Audit: I believe ‘most people can’t think for themselves.’ Confidence 0–10: __. What assumptions am I making?”

  1. Decision Audit (for creators / leaders)

“Decision Audit: This article makes me want to ______ (post, argue, withdraw, warn others). What belief is driving that impulse, and what would an aligned action look like?”

A calmer, sharper kind of intelligence

The future won’t be shaped by the loudest opinion.
It will be shaped by the people who can:

  • hold uncertainty without panicking

  • question authority without becoming allergic to expertise

  • see manipulation without turning it into paranoia

  • disagree without needing to destroy

That’s not just “critical thinking.”
It’s identity sovereignty.

If you’ve felt the pull toward strong conclusions—on any side—this tool is for you.

Start here – there is no charge for this one:
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69860e4651348191b8aac050b5a35c70-immachines-belief-examination-gpt

And begin with one sentence:

“I want to examine a belief I’m holding.”