The Mission of Betrayal: Shepherd Wolves, Red Herrings and Poisoned Meatballs, 2

Wil Coyote turns the page, and continues reading:
“The next step is the specialisation swindle.”
I permit myself to intervene for a moment here just to point out that not without reason I put a section in the beginning named “Not up to it?” This swindle is quite basic, quite commonplace, quite overlooked, and quite important to detect and reject.
Wil Coyote reading again:
“Any subject beyond a certain level of detail is the province of its insiders, and while the truth is that anyone, whether insider or not, is entitled to understand it through its fundamentals without having to resort to such details and it is up to the insiders to make it so, the truth is commonly reversed by the insiders to fool people into subjection. And they do that by making people apathetic at first about the details, and in the long run about the whole subject. You just don’t get it; you are the one at fault: that is the swindle.”
As I said – me speaking now –, “I don’t understand” means “I don’t know”. And the whole trick here is convincing you that “you can’t understand”… the information that is being denied to you in the first place, its understandable form included.

Wil Coyote turns another page:
“The next step is the immune system.”
As we have seen – still me speaking –, the host’s immune system is a major target for the parasite: any attacker worth the name aims at hijacking the very defenders of the victim and turning them against it.
Wil Coyote asking me to kindly quit interrupting and distracting him, and resuming to read:
“The merging of the opinion leader, the expert and the watchdog is at the same time the symbol of the risks intrinsic to delegation and their becoming a reality, and all these facets reinforce such role like ramparts in a fortress. You motivated people by creating serious problems for them, you persuaded them that these problems are too difficult for them to understand and so to put blind faith in experts and opinion leaders, you gave them as their opinion leaders the very experts in charge of watching their backs, and you have these all in your power, whether they realise it or not; there you have it: they all eat out of your hand now.”