I've been surprised I think because nobody predicted covid which was the trigger where the public was so afraid That they actually wanted the elites to be what the elites had been claiming to be from the 20th century on Which is we are the experts. We know We have Solutions to problems So there's almost a mathematical mindset Do what are very squishy and and uh difficult circumstances not problems Um, but I think the public wanted desperately for this to be a mathematical problem That could be solved right away by these wise people that were tellers that could do it And I think so then would nobody complained too loudly when social media was essentially centered so that non institutional opinions about covid were either muted or

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