I half-believed in it at first, but with a strong edge of skepticism, and minimal MSM exposure. It was watching all the people around me, many of them quite intelligent, become increasingly less so the longer it went on. As their minds slowly closed and they spiralled into wide-eyed credulity, I was left wondering: Who ARE these people? --like the world had become an open insane asylum and almost everyone I knew had turned into a walking zombie. It was this directly-apparent social phenomenon, perhaps more than anything, that touched my heart with a burning, half-hilarious exasperation and turned me unequivocally against it.
The few times I would meet someone else who sanely spat on it all were red-letter dates for me, and I cherish every one of those people in my heart to this day.
I know what you mean, but I'm "educated" too, to an odd extreme, and lived in an academic environment. The people I'm thinking about were, and are, generally active, hard-working, bachelor-degree level IT and managerial types brilliant enough to put me to shame in almost any practical assignment. They are quite capable of critical thinking, and showed themselves so at the very beginning.
I think what has gone on is that intelligent people tend to move into management, as the capable, responsible workers they are, and managerial people plug into the hierarchy in which their jobs are embedded. They may not have much choice, as they can't manage without the backing of higher authorities. Whatever screaming nonsense comes down the pipelines, they have to accept it, internalize it, and pass it down to the people under them if they want to retain their positions. That makes them uniquely self-brainwashable, in a way that those of us who can just grumble and do our jobs are not.
I half-believed in it at first, but with a strong edge of skepticism, and minimal MSM exposure. It was watching all the people around me, many of them quite intelligent, become increasingly less so the longer it went on. As their minds slowly closed and they spiralled into wide-eyed credulity, I was left wondering: Who ARE these people? --like the world had become an open insane asylum and almost everyone I knew had turned into a walking zombie. It was this directly-apparent social phenomenon, perhaps more than anything, that touched my heart with a burning, half-hilarious exasperation and turned me unequivocally against it.
The few times I would meet someone else who sanely spat on it all were red-letter dates for me, and I cherish every one of those people in my heart to this day.
Maybe the people you mention are not really intelligent, but just "educated".
I am sorry but I just don't see what definition of "intelligent" could include people that fell for it.
I know what you mean, but I'm "educated" too, to an odd extreme, and lived in an academic environment. The people I'm thinking about were, and are, generally active, hard-working, bachelor-degree level IT and managerial types brilliant enough to put me to shame in almost any practical assignment. They are quite capable of critical thinking, and showed themselves so at the very beginning.
I think what has gone on is that intelligent people tend to move into management, as the capable, responsible workers they are, and managerial people plug into the hierarchy in which their jobs are embedded. They may not have much choice, as they can't manage without the backing of higher authorities. Whatever screaming nonsense comes down the pipelines, they have to accept it, internalize it, and pass it down to the people under them if they want to retain their positions. That makes them uniquely self-brainwashable, in a way that those of us who can just grumble and do our jobs are not.