We disagree in "fooled". People do what they want and need and are much smarter than we like to believe.

I'm afraid but I don't share what seem to be the common idea of stupid masses. It's a very socialist perspective: "People are good but they (tens of millions) are all easily fooled by a bad guy with a few rich and powerful friends."

I reject this perspective in all of histories, everywhere.

But yeah, the documentary kind of fits and far from me was rejecting it. I just took the opportunity to expand on the topic.

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I appreciate the optimism in humanity 🧡

I am by nature less optimistic but not completely pessimistic... Maybe not really stupid but we don't know what we don't know so it is easy to influence each other. That happens in small and big scales from a product to a war. Not really a conspiracy just incentives. Not everyone is good and not everyone is bad. So when humans go to war they all think they are the good guys...