“When information itself is threatening, as you suggest, there has to be a backstory context that makes it threatening. Intellectuals, honest ones anyway, must live with a great deal of ambiguity. Ideologues don’t. For the ideologue or tribally committed, it seems a case of “either THEY win or WE win”. For those of an ambiguous turn – what “winning” even means is in considerable doubt.”

— infraheard