A hazard of "seeing through bullshit" is that you eventually come to take the perspective for granted, think you have some innate ability to do so rather than t

A hazard of "seeing through bullshit" is that you eventually come to take the perspective for granted, think you have some innate ability to do so rather than the continual uphill battle it is, get complacent, and then end up getting stuck in a different reality distortion field. The same dynamic is at play with all of these US-focused anti-imperialists who had spent decades seeing through the US's bullshit, but then end up getting totally taken in by Russian imperial bullshit because it's familiarly anti-US.