Idiots

In a previous article I wrote about con men. Business owners or artificial authorities who play experts. They try to trick you for simple reasons such as money, popularity, status, power. They often confirm their expertise with each other. It's visible and easy to spot.

However, not everyone has their own business or real power. Some people have ideologies. Never unique, never their own. It can be some political view, religion, ecology, economy, or whatever. It's not invented by them. It's mostly performative activism. They tell you how to live, how to speak, what to buy. Most importantly, how you should not live, what you can't buy, and what is prohibited to use. They make lists of prohibited people, companies, groups, ideas, countries. They label them and sentence them as evil. If you don't align with their nonsense, you belong to a gulag.

Those people mostly inherited their agenda from some propaganda. It's rarely a lived experience. They were just programmed to believe some fantasy, and then they play "police" to force it on everyone around. They aren't necessarily lying. They may sincerely believe everything they say. But their "experience" is largely experience of consuming an idea, rather than experience of applying it. Adopting a pre-packaged identity requires no actual sacrifice if it is only performed for an audience.

You don't hear "I've tried both approaches for five years. Here's what actually happened."
You hear "Anyone who does X is part of the problem."

Those people, divorced from reality, are used by the con men to accumulate more resources, force rules, make wars, strengthen their power and status. Free voluntarily with enthusiasm.