[Florin_Andrei]

> No, this is about something much more sinister: denying the ability to reason about and disseminate observations.

Let's face it: Joe H. Average does not "reason". He just takes it on faith that there are various authorities on different matters, and just subscribes to the points of view of those authorities.

So then, the really sinister thing is this massive push to denigrate some authorities, while setting up "alternatives" in their place.

The vast, vast majority of people are puppets with very limited mental autonomy. If you think otherwise then you have no chance of understanding what's really going on now - because that's how the manipulators are thinking about the world, and they are succeeding.