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Many people I encounter are so brainwashed by media that they can't see two inches in front of their noses, and if you ever challenge them on the propaganda they find there, like Pavlov's dog they will call you a conspiracy theorist. They will then turn up their nose and walk away with a heightened sense of superiority.

The term "conspiracy theory" is remarkably adept at turning off all critical thinking like a light switch in a large portion of the people I have personally met.

Conditioning the public to react this way has to have been one of the most effective PSYOPs ever pushed onto the general population.

It is equal parts diabolic and brilliant, and it means that the elites can get away with just about anything with little to no scrutiny because everyone is too afraid to point out that the emperor has no clothes lest they be labeled a "conspiracy theorist".

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I am a "conspiracy theorist". I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire. If you don't think so, then you are what is called "an idiot". If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called "a coward".

-David Cullum

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Someone far smarter than I once pointed out that "belief is the enemy of knowledge". This is also true of disbelief.

The reason we are in this mess running headlong into tyranny is because the majority of people refuse to believe that the controllers would ever do this to us. These eternal optimists appear to be blind to this most fundamental construct of human nature: that power corrupts nearly everyone who wields it—and the globalists - those obscure puppetmaster billionaires you never read about in Forbes and who've spent decades away from the disinfectant properties of sunlight - have indeed become quite corrupted.

More here: https://tritorch.com/BeliefTrap

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How can you convince a group of otherwise rational people to simultaneously reject blatant realities? In short, incentives.

In this case, the financial incentives of actors tangential to the "public health" apparatus were and are centrally controlled. That is to say, there is a relatively small group of people - Fauci primary among them - who decide where the financial benefits flow.

This creates a Cantillon class of privileged political actors who are enriched not by their level of skill or ingenuity, but simply by their proximity to the financial spigot. This Cantillon class is most apparent in purely financial organizations like the Federal Reserve and the mega banks. But Fauci has done a tremendous job mimicking that structure in public health. He and his associates successfully gained such significant control of government funding that they were and are able to control even the speech of downstream actors.

This showed itself to be an existential threat to Science itself, which is meant to be a competitive process of decentralized and independent actors. That decentralized and independent academic process (and system of incentive creation) was functionally destroyed by the centralization of the funding mechanism. This also similarly explains Fauci's odd utterances that he himself now represents Science. In a way, he does. He represents the artificial financial incentives that now represent Science.

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