You see there are these guys you encounter in real life and in cyberspace who many revere and perceive as highly cerebral. They are the chief custodian of contemporary knowledge and detectors of intellectual dishonesty; they are also good at amalgamating words together just to sound very convincing.
From time to time, people like myself try to engage these individuals who have their thrones on world class stages in what ought to be intelligent exchanges but more often than not, these exchanges degenerate into assembly sessions for their numerous fans to derive some entertainment and also to offer their adoration to the chief masquerade.
How exactly does the masquerade succeed in providing entertainment for his/her teeming fans? Let me tell you what they do. They highlight any portion of the short or lengthy discourse, excise it and utilize it to propagate whatever narrative they deem fit. Let me give you an example.
Let us assume I was interacting with someone about Donald Trump and stated that " the Donald will be a very good president of the association of reality show hosts. " The highly cerebral fellow would then excise "the Donald will be a very good president..." and use it as bait to attract his/her ant-like back slappers to start off an orgy characterized by unprintable insults and mockery directed at me the source of the now mutilated comment and hero worship for the god. Those who take the bait largely consist of pseudointellectuals most of whom have suffered from diverse complexes all or almost all of their lives and only seek acceptance in 'Cyberia. ' The others are largely innocent but manipulated.
One thing I have observed about these champions is that they never concede even in the face of superior argument and readily turn around to accuse whoever opposes them of pettiness even when it's apparent to all and sundry who the petty person is. As far as masquerades are concerned, they are a superior breed with alien 👽 abilities beyond the comprehension of the numerous minions who they must imagine the others are. Even a minion in front of a convex mirror will appear to itself larger than he truly is.
We are humans because we are not machines or cyborgs. It doesn't matter how much artificial intelligence is depicted on television and in the movies, humans are still humans and retain the ability to make decisions as long as humans have the capacity to do so especially religious ones. Masquerades are usually intolerant but this flaw is not perceptible to them.
There are those who will do, say or post anything on social media just to get applause and pump more air into their sinuses. They succeed in getting endorsement from their numerous admirers and assume that their peers are lost in the jubilant crowd when they are in fact standing afar and wondering why the much revered masquerade who is desperate to be king is out in the market square dancing naked to the beat of jesters.
"We are nothing but pencil ✏.... "
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