The Daily Text
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
Aphorism 3
Admiration at their novelty heightens the value of your achievements. It is both useless and insipid to play with the cards on the table. If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention. Mix a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration. And when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary intercourse. Cautious silence is the holy of holies of worldly wisdom. A resolution declared is never highly thought of; it only leaves room for criticism. And if it happens to fail, you are doubly unfortunate. Besides, you imitate the Divine way when you cause men to wonder and watch.
This is important to remember when dealing with social media fortune tellers and self-proclaimed experts. At times it is better to maintain some mystery and not let all the information out.
Silence can be an important and effective strategy.
Quotes
Our quotes today come from The Rape of the Mind by A.M. Merloo, M.D.
The task of the totalitarian propagandist is to build special pictures in the minds of the citizenry so that finally they will no longer see and hear with their own eyes and ears but will look at the world through the fog of official catchwords and will develop the automatic responses appropriate to totalitarian mythology.
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind.
Link
Look at this article from Metabunk that gives you ten characteristics of conspiracy theorists.