You are quite correct that folks incapable by nature or rearing to make well considered decisions fall headlong into cults. Neither of us is of that ilk.
"...there is no corner."
Sadly, I wish it were so. I learned it was not so in the Seventh Grade, when accosted by several of the teams of jocks. There was ~40 of them and me. This is a real corner, and the solution I sought to implement was that any cornered rat would take.
While I took my lumps, they did not take from me either my voice, nor my self respect. Today we are trapped in many corners in metaphorically similar circumstances to my middle school fray, by forces we are vastly overpowered by.
These forces do take our voices and censor us.
What they cannot do is make us agree they should, or with their propaganda. This is why I am here, and not on Twatter, because here I have a voice, and on Twatter I have been censored. Until the troops come home from Afghanistan, and we are literally dehumanized by force, I will guard my corner as I am able.
Then I expect to be silenced forever.
I'm fully against how certain platforms out there are censoring or applying 'more information' alerts to content coming from independent sources mentioning anything pandemic related. All that did was fuel conspiracy theories. Made it look sketchy and controlled by a few. Also through the power of suggestion again, that conditions minds to dismiss 'unofficial' information by default, which could set the stage for problems down the road. I absolutely hate how the media handled this entire situation. And with that I include those who would intentionally spin the 'official' story into something it wasn't. That's new media as well these days, I suppose, since some choose to believe tabloids and get steered in all kinds of directions. Bugs me how the written word or the spoken recorded word is processed by the human mind. Just seems to enter the brain like a virus and start messing with the signals. And it bugs me seemingly majority of society thinks they're immune to brainwash. Once one puts their guard down, they become easy prey.
Too true. I am often haunted by how easily I have been led astray, and that is why I so treasure criticism, because that has always been what has corrected me when I have been fooled.