Thanks for a valuable comment worth reading a couple times or thrice. The insights into academia are depressing, though I already know well the plight of the ad

Thanks for a valuable comment worth reading a couple times or thrice. The insights into academia are depressing, though I already know well the plight of the adjunct. Unionize! > Well, I am skeptical that people are that easily led... I feel that it's more the case that they respond to what they need and so if what you're providing doesn't line up with their (possibly dysfunctional) view of the world your ideas will fall on deaf ears. I'll add a couple points, hopefully without belaboring the question: First, governments, corporations, and political organizations spend a lot of time and money trying to influence opinion, especially online (even on HN); they must believe, rightly or wrongly, that they can lead people. Second, I agree that your ideas can't conflict with their worldview, and in fact the way to lead people (in this sense) is to target their worldview; frame that, program their assumptions and their conclusions are second nature.