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With all respect to Kunstler, he is wrong about the crowd. It will pick the rhetorician every time even if the crowd consists of knowledgable persons.

Recall the Asch conformity experiments. Even if you see Line C is shorter than lines A-E, if all the others at the table tells you Line D is the shortest, about 2/3s will agree it is shortest.

And even if being filmed, out of those 2/3s the majority will insist if later challenged, that they did pick the shortest line, and that the film of them complying with the group and picking the second shortest is wrong, fake or manipulated.

The stolen elections (because the USA isn't alone in that), the corporat media, the perfidious putrid gash of academia, the entertaintment sector - this is a war over the human spirit.

Not over what it is or is to be, but over whether or not humans will have spirit in the future, or just be hairless simian consumer-producer units on spreadsheets.

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