The last 4 years have exposed some interesting correlations between levels of education, intelligence, socioeconomics, upbringing and perhaps even genetic behavioural predispositions, and the extent to which someone can be manipulated, coerced, made compliant, gaslit, gullible etc. Certainly the “mainstream” macro totems seem to be almost insignificant - race, gender, sexual orientation, religion - since almost everyone everywhere is subjected to the same ubiquitous forces of control and homogeneity. It seems to be the finer micro details that are the determinants of disparities of outcomes…