Chameleon Magazine

 🧠⚔️Forget the bedtime story about elites quaking in their boots over a smarter population. The real fear isn’t that you’ll start quoting Chomsky at the dinner table — it’s that you’ll start attending union meetings. Intelligence doesn’t threaten power. Coordination does.

🧩 Keep ‘Em Smart, Just Not Together

Let’s get one thing straight: the ruling class isn’t running from your book club. They’re not trembling at your ability to name every economic theory from Adam Smith to Marx with a dash of Keynesian spice. No, what makes them lose sleep is you and your neighbour — the warehouse worker, the teacher, the delivery driver — realising you’ve got more in common than Netflix algorithms suggest.

See, the fragmented, exhausted, rent-gouged society you’re swimming in? That didn’t just happen. It’s policy with plausible deniability. 🤷‍♂️

A public buried in work, bills, and engineered scarcity has no time to unionise — let alone organise. Add a media chorus framing solidarity as suspicious and division as patriotic, and voila: a population that’s free-range, but conveniently defanged. 🐑📉

And let’s talk about migration — not the warm-and-fuzzy moral debate, but the cold mechanics: when labour is split, wages are kept low, organising slows to a crawl, and workers eye each other as threats instead of teammates. That’s not just capitalism. That’s design.

Division is the cheapest tool in the ruling toolkit. Want to avoid spending on housing, healthcare, or education? Easy: just stoke a fire under the population and walk away like you’re not holding the petrol can. 🔥🏃‍♀️

So no — they don’t fear intelligence. They fund the universities. What they fear is cross-demographic, material-based solidarity. Solidarity that says: “Wait a minute… we’re all being shafted the same way.”

Organised people break systems.

Disorganised ones break each other.

And that’s exactly how they like it.

🚨 Challenges 🚨

What if everything you were told to blame — migrants, the poor, the “other side” — was just political smoke? 💨 Comment below with your take on how division is sold as patriotism, and what true solidarity could look like. 💥🧱