There are few things more American than populist elitism: the belief that you are somehow separate from the ultra-nationalists or the globalists who really express the popular sentiment, that your deduction of conspiracy theories give you an advantage over the sheeple, or that your unique perspective of something shiny in history gives you an advantage. The idea that most of the "other Americans" are uniquely and world-historically stupid, that YOU are the one leads us out of the Idiocracy of the current, is believed by all parts of the US political spectrum.
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Date: 2020-05-03 07:22 pm (UTC)From:But this fallacy has very well also spread out into the rest of the world...
As I keep reminding people who grow to overenthuasiastic about their "knowledge" from my nihilistic standpoint: "You can maybe even be as much correct as you want, but in the end, keep in mind that nobody may give a damn at all. You alone are no power to make the world stop spinning for a moment. You alone are pretty meaningless for the course of the world. The world doesn't orientate a single bit by what you think.".