<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # If someone builds an audience by teaching other... > If someone builds an audience by teaching other people to distrust every scientific, medical, computational, and civic interface until those followers can no longer function inside the civilization around them, then the propagandist has performed something much more serious than expressing an eccentric opinion: they have converted ignorance into material disadvantage and called it liberation. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “If someone builds an audience by teaching other people to distrust every scientific, medical, computational, and civic interface until those followers can no longer function inside the civilization around them, then the propagandist has performed something much more serious than expressing an eccentric opinion: they have converted ignorance into material disadvantage and called it liberation.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-someone-builds-audience-disadvantage-called-liberation ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->