Imagine being in Taiwan and having full access to information about China and the west and still shilling for China. Those types of people should be looking for a dominatrix, not a political philosophy…

That's kind of the history of humanity regarding religion. To some degree when the religious prophets were alive it make sense, but hundreds of years later it's a story book (or oral tradition) and people still strive for the authority.

We haven't really had that many teachers like Carl Sagan who describe the history and our favoring of authority - inability to question them. It's pretty weird, as they often aren't attractive or good speakers, but you see people just accept almost anything they say. I mean in the USA I witnessed so many people who would trust Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones kind of blindly, and there is some mechanism at play that humanity in total seems to keep engaging.