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This is a false equivalency.

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Here why this graphic is wrong. - "Several things are *off* at once here—and they stack. ### 1. **Category error: obedience ≠ worship** The image equates **institutional compliance** with **religious worship**. That’s a philosophical mistake. * Worship is ultimate allegiance, meaning, and value orientation. * Compliance (or even loyalty) is instrumental and conditional. People can obey, trust, criticize, resist, or work within institutions *without* granting them ultimacy. Collapsing those categories is sloppy thinking. --- ### 2. **False equivalence** CDC scientists and DHS agents are depicted as morally and spiritually identical simply because they’re both “government.” That ignores: * Different missions * Different moral frameworks * Different power relationships * Different kinds of authority (epistemic vs coercive) This is **flattening reality to score a vibe-point**, not an argument. --- ### 3. **Strawman via aesthetic manipulation** The kneeling posture is doing all the rhetorical work. The image says: > “Look, they kneel → therefore they worship.” But kneeling here is **purely symbolic theater**. It’s not evidence of belief, devotion, or metaphysics. It’s a visual trick—propaganda logic, not reasoning. --- ### 4. **Projection** The meme accuses *others* of worship because the creator already frames the world in religious terms. Ironically, that reveals: * A tendency to see power through **idolatry lenses** * A need to sacralize politics (even while claiming to oppose it) That’s not escaping worship—it’s **reassigning it**. --- ### 5. **Psychological simplification** This image relies on a single moral binary: > “Us = free thinkers” > “Them = submissive worshipers” That’s comforting—but reality-selecting it is not. Highly intelligent people across institutions often act from: * Conscience * Tradeoffs * Partial knowledge * Moral tension * Imperfect agency The meme erases all of that. --- ### 6. **AI-propaganda tell** Both halves are hyper-stylized, emotionally saturated, and unrealistically symmetrical. That’s not documentation. That’s **moral mood music**. --- ### The core problem (the real one) This image *pretends* to attack idolatry while actually doing this: > **Replacing discernment with contempt.** And contempt feels like clarity—but it corrodes judgment. If you wanted to summarize what’s wrong in one line, it would be: > **It confuses criticism of institutions with spiritual diagnosis of people.** That move is always cheap—and always wrong." You can do better, Uncle Ted.

If one believes government should provide security within society, then one of these is honourable.

Gm 🤝☕️

GM

Hmmm.