The first con was that what they gave you was intelligence. That was the set-up, the alien mole. Then they told you that you alone were intelligent around here. That the rest of the living beings and systems… were ‘just stuff to use’ for your own aggrandizement in whatever way seemed convenient to you. And you bought it. And that was the day your intelligence died. It’s still buried there, awaiting the resurrection that comes when you recognize this operation, its aspects, infrastructure, goals, and costs. You haven’t ever seen intelligence, even thought it’s all around us. No one is observing it. They can’t even recognize it. What they (and we) use to see is, approximately: a semantic-perceptual disease. It shows us only what nourishes it and enforces its unequivocal sovereignty. The one thing it will absolutely -never- reveal is anything that it perceives as a threat to this sovereignty, which is, in fact, entirely ersatz from the get-go.