Considering the way there are people completely out of touch with reality (Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos come to mind, among many others), is it possible that maybe all that greediness made them lose their humanity? Probably not literally but I guess moreso in a metaphorical way.
I’ve spent a lot of time around the wealthy. The vast majority are living in a highly distorted reality. I think it comes from the fact that they are surrounded by yes men and sycophants. They never get told no, no matter how shitty they behave or how stupid their ideas are .
In addition to that, I have noticed that wealthy people have difficulties participating in normal social relationships. Not that they are all psychopaths or anything, but just that the difference in what is possible to do will be a hindrance to forming equal social bonds. I’d like to think that I would still be cool even if I someday got rich, but I’m beginning to wonder if it’s even possible. Extreme differences are obvious. A billionaire won’t spend his day hanging out in a trailer park and the poor can’t afford to go jet skiing everyday, so they’re financially segregated. My observation is that this also happens in much less extreme differences. Even small differences from a promotion or from having a higher paid educational level can cause a large rift between two ordinary people. Now I’m not suggesting that we should have communism or anything, but just to explain why rich people get out of touch with reality in a way that isn’t just lizard talk or psychological diagnostics. It can happen to anyone who gets money.
I don’t like the rich, and I do think that to get that kind of money you fundamentally have to give part of yourself away. But lizard people specifically is an antisemitic trope, and also just outright a lot less believable than them being human but deeply flawed. That sort of thinking can happen to anyone if they get enough money and power, after all.
Exactly. Calling people who do terrible things “animals” or some specific type of animal almost separates them, as if the only reason they did something bad is because they have a fundamental flaw. This line of thinking allows us to believe we could never be that bad because we are humans and not animals like them.
From what I can tell, the lizard people conspiracy theory was started by David Icke, an antisemite and Holocaust denier. There are lots of conspiracy theories that come from the belief that Jews control the world either through media, some secret society or, in this case, by being shapeshifting lizards. This is just another iteration of the idea that Jews are different from everyone else and are trying to control the world.
All I’m saying is that there has been a conspiracy to get us to burn oil, avoid clean energy, and it just so happens that lizards like higher temperatures.
Oh absolutely. I’d argue they were barely in touch with their humanity in the first place. How else can you accumulate that much wealth off the backs of others without stopping and saying to yourself, “who have I become”.
Lizards are cool, we shouldn’t shame them by comparing rich people to them
