These are people who make a living on being a contrarian to some dominant group. They exist as a kind of devil’s advocate or negative force to the dominant culture. They are part of the machine, diverting attention from the bigger issue that the machine itself shouldn’t exist. They will sometimes push for more radical modifications, but they are wholly within the system and they benefit by keeping things going.
A common theme with these contrarians is that they’re characterized as liberal, and later attacking their original liberal base. They get popular by operating within a center-left position, but then they later attack the center-left as their popularity grows. They make most of their money in the years following their big popularity.
Names (topic): Christopher Hitchens (Iraq War, Religion), Matt Taibbi (2008 Recession), Glenn Greenwald (NSA & Edward Snowden), Derrick Jensen (environmentalism), EF Schumacher (environmentalism), Gore Vidal (politics), Sam Harris (atheism), Ron Paul (Federal Reserve), David Graeber (Occupy Wall St), Noam Chomsky (Media & War), Chris Hedges (Progressive Causes), Steve Skojec (Roman Catholic Church)
Contrarians are just part of the system, ignore them.
Don’t give professional contrarians your time & money. If someone is giving you endless facts & exists just to oppose someone else, ignore them. They aren’t giving you any direction in your life, they’re just telling you “don’t do that” and then running away with your money. They have no intent to do things differently, and they are just cashing in on problems without actually providing some answer to it.