When you are running with the herd, you can't just stop and scratch your ear, but us little critters in the forest have to listen for every sound. Situational awareness.

When it's millions and billions of people, it's not so much culture and politics, as biology and physics.

So the trick is to scope out the inflection points. The little tumble that starts the avalanche, the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Then try to line up the balls in a way the larger picture will follow through.

Given all the various conceptual miscues, from our religious models taking ideals as absolutes, to treating time as an actual, essentially physical dimension, much as epicycles assumed the earth as the center of the universe, it's not like there are not some large rocks that that can be tossed in the machinery, it's just a matter of pushing them into the works and waiting until the old models have truly failed.

Here is another example, less political, but really goes to the core of how deep the crowd think goes;

https://medium.com/predict/the-webb-is-cast-72f2b8ab067d

Then if you have a number of rocks, like all of the above, they should have compounding effects. Though as of yet, it mostly gets me blocked and banned.

We are all mortal. It's just a matter of keeping it interesting. Life is a dance, not a race.