[MattPalmer1086]

It is not a matter of "trusting" his opinion. You can agree with it or disagree quite freely.

He is raising an interesting point, namely that you don't need to do weird sci fi things like implant chips in people's brains in order to control us.

All you need to do is to manipulate language and narratives. This harks back in some ways to his book Sapiens, where he shows how religions bind us together in shared narratives.