Trevor Noah

So authoritarian manipulation is happening on both extremes to create confusion.

So that's one point.

The CIA developed all these tools that are being used on us.

No big... And this is where we have to understand complex systems.

We invented...

roadside bombs for the Afghans to use on the Russians, and then we went into Afghanistan, they were used on Americans.

We were developing all of these technologies, et cetera, and it's being used on us.

But it's a complex system.

It genuinely is.

So it's moving.

So the other point I want to make is something called fourth and fifth generation psychological warfare.

I wrote about this in The Cult of Trump.

Fourth generation warfare was first written down as a thing in the 80s by a guy, a military strategist, American.

military strategist named William Lind.

And it's about attacking experts, science, and democratic institutions to demoralize a society so you can influence and put in a dictatorship or whatever.

Right.

But so because human beings, we can't know everything.

We depend on experts who spent their lives studying and we want to trust the experts, but that's, we've seen a systematic assault on experts and on science.

There's good science and there's bullshit science.

Good science doesn't say we have the truth.