in conditions of widespread preference falsification, dissent is startlingly powerful; a few people pointing out the emperor’s nudity emboldens more, which can quickly cascade to the point of toppling regimes
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counterculturalists of all stripes tend to misidentify this as a feature of dissent, not as a feature of preference falsification. dissent against a position actually held tends to strengthen it, often even when it is weakly held, if the dissenter is disagreeable
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the prince, then, should always employ shills to dissent against those positions which serve him that the people best agree with. this requires an absence of wishful thinking about what the people believe, by which we may distinguish the prince from an ordinary narcissist
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this is what anti-vaxxers are
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