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To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why “Hitler was right”
If it’s (supposedly) “human nature” then why don’t all humans do it? You don’t see the entirety of humanity volunteering to be police and repress their own for the rich, do you?
There is a spectrum of human nature of course. It is why I said “some”. Not you or I, but there are plenty who will sell you out and that type of human has been a monkey on our back since forever. Sadly, we idolize many of them and given them their power, which begs the bigger question…is it our nature as a species to create the exploitative environments?
No. We don’t. There’s a good reason they have spent uncountable trillions on propaganda - if we were to see them for what they are, there’d be no idolization. If it was “human nature” to idolize these parasites they wouldn’t need that, would they?
That is only true for those of us with a mind that can see through their BS and are more logical/rational and less emotional. Those who are more in the emotional/group think camp cannot see the lies as they are blinded sadly. I’ve come to accept that it may be as much as 30% of the population that falls into this camp.
I’m no more logical and rational than the guy living on the street corner - in fact, it seems to me it’s the people who claim logic and rationality who turns out to be the easiest to fool with this right-wing bullshit.
That is called the Dunning Kruger Effect, but it is a fact those who lean right tend to have brains with a larger emotional center and thus think more this way while as you pointed out, claiming they are the rational ones. Even when you bring the facts to the table, they do not sway as that is not how you engage them. Got to be emotional engagement and that is something the rational people like myself often underestimate.