If you find yourself inside an arbitrary and simulated reality, the stupidest thing you can do is take seriously the struggle between one polarity and another, between West and East, for and against war, for and against health policy, etc. Ruling regimes are part of the simulation, as are rebel forces. Paradoxically, the purpose of the rebel forces is to absorb your actual capacity for rebellion by covertly enslaving it to the simulation and the ruling regime. The real rebellion is on the other side.
Yet most rebellious people are ensnared by the electronic simulation of social rebellion, which plays out on the number of likes, followers and posts. “Liking” and sharing or posting has taken the place of mobilization. The stupidity of many rebellious people goes so far as to convince them that the sum of the rants against the system and the related “likes” can bring about change once a quorum is reached. So watch out for rebels on social media, including of course the author of this post.