Pedes, I'd like to recommend you a good book from a bad source.

I believe in turning the enemy's weapons against them. Here is the book:

https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-gladwell/talking-to-strangers/9780316478526/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers.html

I even linked a NYT article about it, to demonstrate that I know this is not a conservative book or a conservative source.

But allow me to explain.

Several years ago, I had a weird job. I worked for a Diocese (a regional corporate entity of the Catholic Church) in risk and insurance. This was after the first revelation of massive pedophilia and overlapped the second. I was constantly at odds with people over the amount of risk pedophilia and sexual crime in general posed to the Church. I was always framed as chicken little, too worried and too suspicious.

At the time, I was at a loss to explain why everybody else was so credulous and quick to trust the system. Otherwise intelligent people, when presented with evidence that pedophilia and sex crime was still rampant in the Church, disbelieved without reason and turned a blind eye. That house of cards fell down in 2018, with multiple revelations of massive sex crimes and the fact that the people placed in charge of policing sex crimes were themselves sex criminals.

Ok, so the truth mostly got out. Why did it take so long and why were people so resistant to it? It is directly parallel to what we are seeing now. Why are otherwise intelligent Americans resistant to evidence of government corruption, and why do so many elected politicians feel it is their best strategy to go along with it?

For me, this book answered those questions. Although it uses only lefty examples, I found the theory sound. It explains my frustrating experiences and I feel it explains the current situation. It provides information about the societal mechanisms which cause people to ignore evidence based upon their personal web of group affiliations, and the basic need to trust society-level institutions in order to communicate within the group. And why being red-pilled is such a painful experience.

I found it very helpful in my understanding of human beings. I recommend it to you.