I think that's a fair assessment - but I'm not sure it makes it any less stupid. It's certainly counter-evolutionary (devolutionary?). When an idea is true because it is real, no one is telling you what to think - it's not an exercise in control. It's an exercise in understanding the reality of the world you live in. Choosing to reject it purely as an assertion of free will is nothing other than elective stupidity.
For example:
Caveman 1: Don't step off of that cliff, gravity will pull you down into the rocks and you die.
Caveman 2: I choose not to believe in gravity, not because I don't think it's real but because I refuse to be told what to think.
Narrator: Caveman 2 has died on the rocks.