The “secret knowledge” being whatever they think they know that the “sheeple/npcs/bots/libs/conservatives/commies” don’t.
It’s a hell of a trick: society-wide Main Character Syndrome.
The “secret knowledge” being whatever they think they know that the “sheeple/npcs/bots/libs/conservatives/commies” don’t.
It’s a hell of a trick: society-wide Main Character Syndrome.
It is possible for leftists to fall into a Main Character Syndrome trap too. That said, at the least there’s a strong subtext to leftist theory that individuals matter, but they are not for any reason above the community no matter their pretenses of exceptionalism.
Also, like how a lot of fundies claim they are “not religious” and “just have a personal relationship with God,” lots of libs and chuds have pretenses of being “neutral” or for that matter “nonpolitical” which generally isn’t an illusion most leftists believe in.