It is my conviction that everybody ever holding a sign protesting/manifesting for any individual freedom at least since the early 2000s to this day in any western country was 0% motivated by the greater good and 100% motivated by its own personal, hyperlocal and blind self-interest.
Rigorous thinking necessarily requires isolation because in its absence, our mammal brain is too cued in by social constructs to perform rigorous critical and abstract thinking. The second best to isolation is discipline. Although it is hard to be disciplined in a society that does not reward disciplin, but slackery.
“Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter said that presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Volodymyr Zelensky and Andrzej Duda, were allegedly conducting secret negotiations to unite the countries”