The point of a preposterous myth is that it is a wedge issue that allows the majority to identify &quot;enemies&quot; and dangerous dissidents, because intelligent people just can&#x27;t help themselves. It creates a target rich environment for the truly contemptible who will inform on, denounce, and betray their neighbors for a few extra rations or a commendation from some apparatchik, maybe just a fellowship.<p>An absurd dogma causes trouble makers to self-select out. The &quot;%1&#x2F;%99&quot; trope was cheap demagoguery, and to this day reliably identifies skeptics as discreditable  &quot;liberarians,&quot; or &quot;tea baggers,&quot; and &quot;probably racists.&quot;<p>Occupy had no resources to distribute, and no ultimatum for the upper middle classes, so as a revolution it was a dud. Post-modern feminism has been a successful revolution (unless it&#x27;s counter-revolutionary to say the revolution has ended already, comrade)because its resource was essentially sex, whereby male academics and administrators were convinced that being a &quot;sensitive new age guy&quot; would get them laid, and that critical theory was something more than gibberish.<p>This ushered in a generation of cultural studies programs that exist primarily to legitimize the victimization claims of groups who incorporate an anti-capitalist mandate into their demands for public money. Governments are cool with it because 1. they are non-violent demands for more revenue, and 2. government defers to those academics as &quot;expert&quot; policy advisers. It&#x27;s a bit of a circle squirt.<p>BLM has the chance to be a successful revolutionary movement, much moreso than the Oregon ranch guys or some of the militias, but they haven&#x27;t got the formula down yet. I don&#x27;t want to help because all these movements have totalitarian aims, as from their perspective it&#x27;s ok if it&#x27;s a dictatorship of &quot;good&quot; people.<p>Have fun storming the castle!