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.
I want to emphasize that the examples I gave were about intensified individualist ideology expressed sociopolitically, even economically by extension because of pushback and hostility against even the possibility of change. Not necessarily unique, but more.
I don’t think analysis can go very far if the primary point is “this happens everywhere” with the implication that it happens nearly equally everywhere which I disagree with, especially if that’s supposed to be the end of discussion.