re: Useful Idiots, snap your finger, one thing that will change everyone's minds
Obviously: make people more open to changing their minds on the basis of rational examination of evidence AND on the basis of subjective narratives being authentic ("systems colonize lifeworld" - Habermas).
See evolutionary psychology for why such "openness" was not heavily selected for in the evolution of the human species (in systems theory: a system of dynamic, punctuated equilibrium needs to have the capacity to recover from "too much chaos" without becoming stagnant and fragile to disruption).
So, the larger goal is for the current, failing, disrupted systems of culture to become anti-fragile to disruption by becoming more open in response to disruption of legacy hierarchies of curated expertise. See John Vervaeke's recent youtube on making AI more human for example.
re: Useful Idiots, snap your finger, one thing that will change everyone's minds
Obviously: make people more open to changing their minds on the basis of rational examination of evidence AND on the basis of subjective narratives being authentic ("systems colonize lifeworld" - Habermas).
See evolutionary psychology for why such "openness" was not heavily selected for in the evolution of the human species (in systems theory: a system of dynamic, punctuated equilibrium needs to have the capacity to recover from "too much chaos" without becoming stagnant and fragile to disruption).
So, the larger goal is for the current, failing, disrupted systems of culture to become anti-fragile to disruption by becoming more open in response to disruption of legacy hierarchies of curated expertise. See John Vervaeke's recent youtube on making AI more human for example.