To determine which side is firmly in power, see which side's positions are better understood by the other side.
I don't really see the point in trying to convince you, but if a farmer had to control their cows not via fences but via ideas, the farmer would be very interested in what the cows believe, and he would certainly not install his own beliefs. Popes are not supposed to be Catholic.
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Btw, you sound as if you are convinced that power is intrinsically bad. That may be part of conditioned propaganda. If you think that power is bad and you want to be a good person, you'll stay away from those pesky buttons.
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Power is good or bad... depends to whom. Do you identify with the mind-manipulating sociopathic rulers, or with humans? By discussing with me on twitter, you reveal yourself as human, so identification with the rulers would be a mistake, and power is bad.
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You're missing an important subtlety: the farmer is not interested in the details of what the cattle believe when they don't believe his propaganda; he's interested that they should believe his propaganda. And indeed, he doesn't sincerely believe it himself.
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In the same way as there are almost no cattle outside of fences (and most cattle would not survive the next winter in the wild), there are almost no people outside of ideologies, and most would not get through the next winter on their own.
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