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A message reduces everyday life to consumption and routine and dismisses political debate. The criticism offers no data or proposals and disparages anyone who disagrees.

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The text circulating dismisses political debate and reduces everyday life to consumption and routine, without offering a single piece of data to back up its accusation. It is a complaint about other people's frivolity written from a position of frivolity.

There is a complaint that keeps resurfacing in certain corners of the internet: politics is a farce, politicians fund themselves with villas in the Bahamas, and ordinary people live trapped in a loop of consumption. The message circulating these days says it with more contempt than arguments. It accuses those who debate politics and economics of having a "null intellect" and of disguising their mental rigidity by arguing about "false dissidents." It offers not a single figure, name, or piece of evidence. Only adjectives.

## Politics as someone else's spectacle

The text claims that politicians use voters "like cattle" to fund their private luxuries. It is a serious accusation that, without data, amounts to pure disparagement. Corruption exists and is documented through court rulings, not insinuations. Confusing legitimate criticism with blanket insults does not strengthen any cause: it weakens it. Those who make accusations without evidence end up proving right those who call for rigor.

## Contempt for everyday life

The second part of the message attacks ordinary concerns: the start of the school year, the car's fuel consumption, supermarket opening hours, or weekend plans. It calls all of that "behavioral detritus." It is a convenient way of looking down one's nose. Organizing family life, choosing a car, or planning a vacation is not a sign of stupidity; it is what most people do with the resources they have. Despising those routines does not make anyone smarter.

## A consciousness without arguments

The message ends by wondering how the "stupidest animal" developed a consciousness. The irony turns against its author: if consciousness serves only to insult without contributing anything, perhaps the problem is not the species. Criticism of consumption and politics is legitimate and necessary. But it demands data, names, and proposals. Without that, all that remains is noise.

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