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 agree. There’s so many people that think they’re oppresed free thinkers when they literally believe what the establishment politicians and corpos want. But it’s dressed up in so many layers of bullshit that no amount of questioning them makes then admit that they believe the mainstream thing™.
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.