- Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:30 am
#96152
Kirk debated students because the majority wouldn't have the knowledge, life experience or debating skills to properly demolish what he was coming out with, but some might have been malleable enough to be gaslit into following him.
If he was ever actually open to being proven wrong and changing his mind, rather than making a show of reassuring his backers and followers that they were in the right and should keep following him, the grift would have been over.
And we couldn't have that, could we?
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick