It is more and more each day about fascinating the fools and muzzling the intelligent.

"Fools" are fascinated with shiny and irrelevant stuff, sports, gambling, games, TV shows, irrelevant political discussions, following the "influencers," and stuff that in general, gives them feeling about how their life is good or how they have influence over the things, or how they even can decide something. How they are supposed to be important, how they "matter."

"Fools" are not necessarily fools, just ordinary folks with ordinary problems. Being in a situation where they have to fight for food every day and discovering they have been blind, fooled by the system that they are "important" can cause them to change.

"Intelligent" people might seem a bit more wise than fools, but they understand how stuff works, so they keep their mouths shut. If they talk too much, they're going to be shut down or muzzled.

"War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength." (George Orwell, "1984")

We are being played from one end of history when folks did not have too many rights and freedoms into another end of history wwhen people gonna be stripped and being stripped of rights and freedoms. And it will happen all in the name of rights and freedoms.