Questions

 A few years ago, many of the questions that were asked were about "What podcast do you listen to?", "Can you recommend a book please?", "Where is your source of study?", "Who do you think says the right thing?".

But now the questions have changed significantly. Now it's about "Why did this blogger turned crazy all of the sudden?", "Do you also think that, that person's podcast is no longer attractive?", "Why did I think this writer was different from the others?".

This perceptible shift has two causes, one of which is related to you, and the other is related to those whose contents you saw, heard and read.

After enjoying someone's monologues and dialogues for a while, you come to the conclusion that he's turned delusional, or was from the beginning, which is good news, because it is a sign that you are growing up. And when a person grows older, his expectations also increase. After adolescence, the stabilization of body growth leads to the mistake that one's mind has reached a relative stability. But it is not so.

Body's changes, even if closely monitored by the bathroom mirror, are much more limited than brain maneuvers. Although your body looks mature, mentally you are a child who is growing very fast. Of course, psychologically, you don't like it to be true. Because an adult person, due to his social and family responsibilities, it is beneficial to pretend that he has reached intellectual sufficiency and stands on top of the hill and looks at the world!

This is the part that concerns you. There is another part that is related to those you are following.

Just Once, evaluate your distance with the person you are following. You, as a random person, from thousands of kilometers away, have become the audience of someone who under normal circumstances would never have been willing to sit down with and have a cup of coffee with.

This shows how wide the scope of the other party's audience is, which includes you, and how easy it is for any person to enter the circle of these audiences. Therefore, it is quite natural that he will be followed by other people who are very different from you, and even culturally and educationally, they will be the opposite of you.

Now, if the group of his audience, who are exactly the opposite of you, constitute the majority of his audience, that person will be drawn to them, not to you. Because it is very, very, very rare that someone who has the ability to attract an audience, and then not pay attention to the opinion and support of those who are in the majority!

In most cases, a person who is influencing a large number of people is himself being influenced by those people who are under his influence. So, if it seems that the person you were following has been talking nonsense lately, it could be because he has become the same type as his audiences that likes that kind of nonsense.

Because psychologically we need to rely on them. Even in extreme situations, such as the group of flat earth believers, we see people who are logical people by default, but being a member of a denying group has brought them a good feeling that they don't want to loose.

You can imagine how this mechanism can work in more ambiguous and complex and subtle issues, such as "is the government bad or good?".

The search for the righteous words never has an end point. But you can't be forever a follower of someone, cause you might end up completely disagreeing with them. The disagreement could be either because they are telling nonsense or they are telling harsh truths but you don't want to wake up to reality!