> It saddens me how easily someone with money and influence can elevate themselves to a quasi religious figure.

If so many people wouldn't fall for claims without any proof, religions themselves would not exist.

> In reality, this vision you speak of is more like the blind leading the blind.

If you want to call it suckering suckers into parting with their money that works too.

It’s not all that different from crypto.

Progress depends on irrational people though. Even if 50 companies fail for every one that succeeds, that’s progress.

All knowledge is incomplete and partial, which is another way of saying "wrong", therefore all "vision" is hallucination. This discussion would not be happening without hallucinators with a crowd sharing their delusion. Humanity generally doesn't find the actual truth sufficiently engaging to accomplish much beyond the needs of immediate survival.