Guys in suits — are they the real deal?

The guy in the suit is smarter than the rest of us. Modern society’s most destructive fallacy futurist Chet W. Sisk. Due to the export of Hollywood images and tropes to the rest of the world, there is a kind of an assumption that guys in suits are smarter than the rest of us. We give them deference. We wait for them to make a decision, then we follow it.

We expect them to save the day because we figure they’ll know what to do. This obscene loss of agency on our part is a tragedy on two levels. One, it signals we lost our sense of agency, and two guys in suits have been wrong on many things like the rest of us. Here are some examples of their poor judgment.

We’ll wanna remember when they propose to lead us guys in Suits. Created an entire disinformation campaign to keep us from knowing about climate crisis back in the 1970s when we could have done something about it. Guys in Suits created the Oxycontin addiction epidemic, claiming that they didn’t know people were becoming addicted to the drug.

Guys in Suits financed and organized the transatlantic slave trade for over 250 years. Guys in Suits were behind some of the biggest grifts and Ponzi schemes the world has ever seen. Well, I think you get my drift. That suit doesn’t give them any special insight more than the rest of us. They just have the money to cover up their misdeeds, unlike the rest of us.

This is not to demonize the guys in the suits. It’s to provide balance so that you know that they have no special powers. That should remind you that your ideas, thoughts, and visions carry weight as well. Hold onto that thought. The next time you feel out of place in a room full of suits, you have something to share too.