>> - respect individualism, not conformity
>> - challenge accepted norms, not accept the status quo
>> - value creative thought, not respect accumulated wisdom
Hardly.
We have a growing and vocal section of largely uneducated, unimaginative and unambitious lemmings who in response to a complicated world have reduced it to simple conspiracy theories which are much easier for their minds to grasp and shield them from so many unpleasant truths about themselves.
These 'people' revile any individualism or creative thought. If you do not follow their belief system, how ever good your reasoning, then you are a "sheeple" for following the crowd. The ridiculous irony is entirely beyond them.
It used to be embarrassing to be a socially inadequate thicko and so they either kept quiet or tried to keep up. Consequently it was difficult for them to find similarly limited people and form a gang.
Technology has enabled them to sit behind a screen, safe in their bubble, and seek out other dead-ends to join with. Then, with their gang, they burst out onto the internet relieved to find that being in their gang makes the world so much more understandable. And of course they feel comforted and safe because they are in a group where nobody challenges them and nobody is smart enough to intimidate them. It's all group think.
Regrettably though there are those who, whilst are not like them, do see a use for them. And they are easily manipulated from the inside if you see value in sinking to their level. Farage is a fairly trivial example. Trump another. But there are far worse.
Of course, to make it work you have to belittle everybody else and regard them as liars to avoid having to face their thoughts. You will be regarded and easily accepted if you copy silly nicknames that someone else invented. The alternative would be to understand and refute their arguments intelligently. And if they could do that they wouldn't have joined the gang of inadequates in the first place.
Their easy to spot, we have the odd one here and previously we have had more. But they're everywhere.
I don't think their numbers are increasing, it is just that more and more of them are coming out into the light as their limited way of being becomes more and more common and thus, sadly, tolerated.
They are self defeating of course. They are merely making themselves comfortable with their limited way of being allowing the far more competent to cruise above them for no greater price than being resented by zombies.
I can live with that.
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