It's Much Easier to Fool People than to Open Their Eyes to the Con

Many People Are Much Angrier at the Exposers of the Fraud than at the Fraudsters Themselves

The answer to it is simple - human ego. Our ego is so huge that it makes it hard to impossible for many people to admit their wrongs and mistakes. So, paradoxically, many people would prefer to actually KEEP being conned, and will keep clinging to the lies until the bitter end rather than to admit that they were actually fooled and to learn the truth. Basically, no one likes to admit that he/she was a fool.

A brief example from my glorious homeland. In Russia back in 90s there was a famous pyramid scam (Ponzi scheme) called MMM lead by Sergei Mavrodi. Basically, this Ponzi scheme lured people to invest huge sums of money into non-existent business by initial repaying small profits to the early investors. Eventually, MMM was exposed and collapsed and its leader arrested by Russian state. As a result of this big fraud, from 5 to 10 millions of people in Russia had lost their savings, though. Now, WHOM do you think all of those people blamed for their loss? Do you think they had blamed Mavrodi and his scam? NO, you're wrong. Russian people conned by MMM had BLAMED Russian state for exposing its fraud and for arresting Mavrodi! Conned investors even protested the arrest of Mavrodi in mass back in 90s demanding from Russian state to release Mavrodi so he would 'keep his promise and will pay them their money back'. This seems incredible but that's what actually happened. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE REFUSED TO ADMIT THEY WERE CONNED and believed the swindlers EVEN AFTER THEIR CON WAS EXPOSED! Still, despite proven evidence and facts, people clang to the swindler's lies and kept believing that the swindler would 'pay them their money back'. This had actually happened and this what I call a mass psychosis when people keep believing the fraud even after it's exposed.

It's clear where I'm heading to with it. You could easily make analogies between MMM Russian fraud which conned several millions of people in Russia and much more recent and global Big Pharma Fraud which conned billions of people in the world. And, despite more and more emerging research and evidence exposing this con, people still cling to Big Pharma Fraud and keep believing it. Why so?

Well, just imagine the picture the conned people believe in at this point. In this picture, they are 'very responsible individuals', almost heroes, who are 'saving the world' from 'deadly pandemic' by their 'great personal sacrifices'. Sounds appealing eh? They could feel themselves almost as superheroes from Marvel comic strips. Supermen of our generation who are saving the world by sitting at their sofa and watching Netflix, what could be better? Not only it makes them feel so good, it's also so easy! No hard fights and dangerous enterprises are required! Just sit at home, wear mask and get your jab (or multiple jabs) - and you're a superhero! EASY. Yeah, in fact, despite all of it requiring some personal sacrifices, still, it's actually relatively easy to do it all especially if you believe yourself to be a superhero for doing it. I mean I even saw the Tweets like 'It's not that hard for you to become a superhero by watching Netflix, so please do it'.

Yeah, this far, all their 'great personal sacrifices' hadn't actually stopped the 'deadly pandemic', but actually quite the opposite. Yet, their Leaders provide them with ready answers why is it so - it's all those 'deadly and dangerous new variants' which are constantly emerging out there, so more 'personal sacrifices' are needed. So our Sofa Heroes would always have a new meaning of life and new motivation to get out of their sofas to get the N-jab. Yeah, it looks incredibly funny and actually pathetic when I present it like that but I'm sure there are a lot of people who believe themselves to be very important and responsible individuals who are constantly fighting the 'deadly and dangerous pandemic' by their 'brave compliance' and 'heroic Sofa sitting and Netflix watching'. Night Watch, 'Watchers in the Night' for fuck sake - won't miss any new Netflix series, and now it's a heroic act! Sigh.

Also, ofc, there are those 'evil anti-vaxxers' and 'misinformers' - entirely selfish individuals who don't want to 'save the world' by Sofa Sitting and Netflix Watching, and even less so by Getting Infinity of Vaccine Doses. It's because of them all the heroic efforts of Sofa Sitters are thwarted and pandemic is still raging, ofc. It's because of their 'evil and selfishness' that we still can't get over it. So we, Sofa Sitters and Needle Addicts, need to fight them with all our might. Condemn them, stigmatize and dehumanize them, isolate and segregate them, even imprison and eradicate them! They're evil, they're 'bad boys', they don't let us to 'save the world' and feel so good about ourselves after all. Yeah, again, it might sound pretty funny when I say it like that but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people out there who actually believe that.

Why do so many people choose to believe that, especially against all the new emerging evidence proving this narrative to be false? Again, because it MAKES THEM FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES. Also it makes them feel IMPORTANT. After all, now first time in history you can be a hero and world savior simply by sitting at home and watching Netflix! You don't have to risk your lives going to a war, to learn to use guns and to kill other people as our ancestors had to during WWII - nope, it's enough for you now to sit at home and watch Netflix and to FEEL YOURSELF AS IF YOU WERE A SECOND WORLD WAR SOLDIER, thanks to media false propaganda baselessly equating COVID crisis with WWII. It worked though with all these people. It's again reminiscent of devoted Christians who imagined themselves to fight a 'great battle against cosmic forces of evil - Devil & Co' simply by opening their prayer book or going to churches on Sundays. The meaning is the same as with COVID Sofa Heroes - EVERY AVERAGE PERSON, every nobody now could feel himself/herself a HERO simply by doing their regular routine. Sounds very appealing, eh?

COVID crisis gave all those people a new meaning of life. Now they're not just average insignificant people living their boring regular lives, now they're heroes, world saviors! Now their Netflix watching isn't simply for their own pleasure, it's the whole ritual of the world salvation! See the whole grand scale of that for these people?

Ofc, not everything is that simple. There were some personal sacrifices required from these people too. For example, they had to wear an irritating mask most of the time outside of their home - and if they really wanted to play Save the World game seriously, they had to wear the mask ALL THE TIME OUTSIDE, even when it was just recommended. Some had outdone it by wearing the mask while alone in the car or in the forest even. True 'World Saviors'. Also, they had to give up for a while some of their regular hobbies - nightclubs and parties, music gigs and cinemas, gyms and swimming pools. But all of it was NOTHING for them compared to the GREAT FEELING OF THE WORLD SAVIORS their compliance with state tyranny gave them! Especially, if they had their favorite Netflix at hand anyway all the time, what did they care? And state was temporarily relaxing restrictions from time to time anyway, giving them an opportunity to remember the pleasures of their old hobbies as well. So, it was perfectly bearable for these people to give up many of things in their lives if it made them feel really good about themselves. If it made them feel IMPORTANT. Here's an interesting question who is really SELFISH by the way, people who refused to make personal sacrifices for an uncertain outcome, or people who fell for this con just to FEEL THEMSELVES GOOD AND IMPORTANT.

Now, what if all those people admitted that they were wrong and were conned, more precisely, all this time, at least somewhat? How would it make them feel about themselves? Ofc, PRETTY BAD. Because now, they're not WORLD SAVIORS and HEROES any longer but just naive and gullible fools who let themselves be conned that easily out of their fear, gullibility, and childish desire to feel themselves 'superheroes. Sounds not that appealing any longer? Moreover, admitting that they were conned would mean even more than that. It would mean that all those 'ignorant and deluded conspiracy theorists', all those 'selfish assholes' who didn't want to make any personal sacrifices for the 'greater good' were RIGHT ALL ALONG in their healthy scepticism and selfishness, while all our 'smart and educated' good boys who were saving the world by their Sofa Sitting and Netflix Watching, were wrong all along. And that's just too much for them to admit. Their egos would never allow it.

So they would cling to their false COVID and vaccine narrative until the bitter end because it makes them feel good about themselves. They would never admit the truth because it would make them feel bad about themselves. No matter how much new evidence exposing Big Pharma Big Fraud would emerge, these people would keep dismissing it because it would not stroke their enormous egos. I don't know what to do with that to be honest but I'm fairly disappointed with all humankind at large at this point.