Manipulation of the human mind is not new. It is as old as man himself. Iblis himself deceived Adam and Eve, manipulated their mind and showed them the forbidden tree and swore to them that he only wanted to give them sincere advice. This method is repeatedly used in intellectual charlatanism nowadays. Intellectual charlatans differ in their appearance and their garments and training from the stereotype of the charlatan conveyed by the media, as a person with an awful face and wearing tattered clothes, although conjurations are frequently used by new charlatans in conversations as well as their qualities and attributes, to complete their charlatanism. Some hold the title of expert, others hold the title of specialist or scientist or doctor. Each claims having the keys to solutions and happiness. He then presents his deceiving strategic development play, and before you assimilate what he says, which will never happen, you will be hypnotized before him, admonishing yourself for not understanding his big vocabulary. And in a moment of intellectual surprise, he will air on his fans claiming from them to provide money and support so that he helps them achieve success and get rid of the problems they suffer and provides an antidote to all their dilemmas.
Many are the charlatans who deceive people by selling their cheap ambiguous and empty talk. And when they are asked to actually achieve what they say, they throw their empty rods that appear to people like huge victories and big successes, while they are just intellectual charlatanism that made your mind think they are geniuses. Many of us surrender their minds to new charlatans without using their judgement properly or questioning what they blindly believe, which makes them spend their money in gifts and donations to the new charlatans. Later, when they wake up from their anesthesia, they discover that the rods are magicians’ rods, and a magician thrives not, no matter where he goes, even if he swears by God that he only wants to give sincere advice, while Moses staff is absent, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Alienating the minds of the masses and using mental and intellectual and psychological deception in addition to the shallowness of the culture and knowledge on the part of the misguided, are all factors that made the new charlatans’ trade boom, and made them multiply in our environment. Every day, a new charlatan is born, and with him, a clique of dupes who believe him, and many minds die, and with them dies the truth.
