Creating and spreading lies contributes to destroying peoples' minds. Some of the people involved in spreading lies are more responsible than others. And some people are helping reveal the lies. I describe 7 levels of people involved in spreading lies and revealing lies.
Level 1
leader who created the lies
tries to get more people to spread the lies with him
Level 2
follower who knows they are lies
likes the idea of spreading the lies
tries to get more people to spread the lies with him
Level 3
follower who doesn’t know they are lies
tries to get more people to spread the lies with him
Level 4
follower who knows they are lies
doesn’t like the idea of spreading the lies
but spreads the lies anyway for fear of physical retaliation or social punishment
inadvertently gets more people to spread the lies with him
Level 5
ex-follower or never-follower
but stays quiet about the lies for fear of social punishment
Level 6
ex-follower or never-follower
detractor spreading criticism about the lies
Level 7
ex-follower or never-follower
detractor trying to convert followers to ex-followers
uniter of all the levels of people
Examples:
Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, was level 1 regarding Islam. His inner circle were level 2. I was a level 3. My parents were level 3. My granddad was level 4. There were many level 4s in history — imagine all the scientists and great thinkers of the Middle East who wanted to keep their heads.
People who were level 5 for Islamic lies are those who are afraid to lose their jobs, or cause fights with their spouses, or get cancelled by the leftist social media.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is level 6 regarding Islam. Maybe she wants to be level 7. Maybe she is a 7. I'm not sure what being a 7 would look like. For one thing, she's not involved in any online public discussion group where she and others are learning from each other. She does write books and articles (and now she has a podcast) and does interviews but that alone is not effective compared to also participating in critical discussion with others.
I think that approximately everybody believes, follows, and inadvertently spreads some lies. So even if they are level 6 (and trying to be level 7) for Islamic lies, they are level 3 for some other lies.
Many western parents are level 2 for the Santa Clause lie.
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