Everyone is stupid about some things, and some people are smart about how to grift those who are dumb about a category. And those people are heavily incentivized to do so with the things that they can gain things like money, control, ego. So voila, you have a significant percentage of the population that are dumb about things like politics because the grifter types have been manipulating more and more power while undermining systems designed to ensure people are properly educated and informed. This also improves the efficacy of things like election fraud.
It’s a social cycle that repeats all over the globe time and time again. And unfortunately the cycle rarely resets unless things just break.
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
*A person is smart, people are dumb. *
Everyone is stupid about some things, and some people are smart about how to grift those who are dumb about a category. And those people are heavily incentivized to do so with the things that they can gain things like money, control, ego. So voila, you have a significant percentage of the population that are dumb about things like politics because the grifter types have been manipulating more and more power while undermining systems designed to ensure people are properly educated and informed. This also improves the efficacy of things like election fraud.
It’s a social cycle that repeats all over the globe time and time again. And unfortunately the cycle rarely resets unless things just break.
–Marcus Tullius Cicero, ca. 50 BCE