Triggerwarning: This is not the usual well-balanced and refined piece of brilliant rethoric, you are used to, when reading my articles. No, this time, I promise not to take prisoners and if you are easily offended by expressions like "bullshit" or "village idiot", you might be overwhelmed by the inflationary use of such in the following. And I do not apologize.
Throughout the centuries every village had it´s village idiot, and some, depending on the remoteness of their community, had two. And there was nothing wrong with this. The vast majority of village idiots was well-liked and integrated in the rural community. People knew, they did weird things or sat at a table in the local pub, babbling and creating wild theories about everything and everyone, and it was okay.
With the invention of the internet every village idiot suddenly found a forum much larger than the local local pub. A whole world of other village idiots, waiting to exchange their thoughts and theories, suddenly feeling they were the oppressed elite. Thanks to an algorithm, creating a perfect bubble and the democratic publishing power of this medium, making everyone a keynote speaker in their own universe.
"Stop, you arrogant Duck!", I hear you shouting now in holy rage. "Just because some people don´t share your thoughts or your view of the world, this does not make them village idiots. And by the way, this term is highly offensive. And I, using every chance for virtue signalling, would prefer you using the term cognitively impaired!"
Well, this isn´t only the end of any chance of a satiricical approach. It turns you into a part of the problem.
Because there are certain things, that just can´t be discussed, where there is no alternative view or second opinion. It´s the laws and certainties our world and all our thoughts and actions are based on. The common ground, that exists, whether you accept it or not. The moment you leave this common ground and create your own altenative facts, we are in trouble.
The earth isn´t flat, it´s a globe. 1 + 1 isn´t 5, it´s 2. The US tariffs, tanking the world economy and mostly the US economy, aren´t an opportunity, they are a disaster, mainly for the US! Unless you have graduated from the DJT College of Alternative Economics in your own parallel universe.
In the past, we heard a lot of bullshit like this. And what did people do, who knew better? We scratched our heads, smiled and walked away. Not speaking up against the bullshit and the bullshitter. Too lazy, too tired, to busy to start an argument. Or scared stiff, something would backfire on us. Afraid of people, calling us arrogant or narrow-minded or people being highly aggressive, even on a very personal level. When everything else fails some ad hominem bullshit does a great job!
All this and our tolerance, all the false balance and cowardice brought us here. We did not call by name the bullshit and the bullshitters. While they thrive in politics, in pseudo-economics, in pseudo corporate management, as pseudo consultants and saviours of all kinds and trades.
They thrive, because we let them, even if we know better. And even worse, besides all the charlatanes and con artists, who exactly know who they are, there is a group with a strong belief being right. Because there is no resistance, even worse, the applause of their own bubble and the saturated lethargy of the rest. Just how far we have come in this respect is shown by the fact that since 2025 we have the first real existing idiocracy in the history of our planet, determining the fate of one of the most powerful countries in the world. And not the funny kind of idiocracy depicted in the movies. A dangerous, ruthless reign of the dumbest, or cognitively impaired, in case you prefer this expression. A threat to themselves, to world peace and economic stability, the rise of a technofascist theocracy.
Isn't it about time, that we leave our comfort zones? And instead of calling bullshit freedom of speech, by the way, calling something bullshit is freedom of speech as well, taking a stand instead? Fighting for political correctness, where it matters and fighting against political correctness, where it prevents a long overdue discussion? Accepting the risk of ending up in a long and tiring argument or being targeted by hate groups?
Well, I don't know. Maybe everything I said above is bullshit too. What do you think?