I feel burdened to expound on a point I've already established.  There is a difference between fooling the people and manufacturing their consent.  After all, the instigators of prefabricated events feel justified in their actions.  Indeed, metaphorically, tyranny is a drunkard intoxicated by the false powers of manipulation.  He or she has little conscience as they are lost in a cruel world blinded by the false dichotomies.   Rather than understand life as it truly is as a conflict between tyranny and the people, they flee to their own little animated worlds where whites fight against blacks, young people rebel against the old, females fight against the males, and so on.

If the Shepherd loses one his lambs, He will find them.  If the Shepherd has a problem with a predatory wolf, He has a much more serious problem.  However, a dog can be of good help.  And a dog is a wild wolf that has converted over to serve an existential purpose pertaining to mankind.  

To fool someone is an action taken by someone who is lost.  In such cases, the Son of Man has to forgive you for the offense that you committed against them.  To stumble them up is far worse as such an offense is predatory and tantamount to committing contempt against the wellbeing of their souls.  When the disciples commanded that the people go down to the market in order to take care of themselves and, afterwards, to then come back, they are really scheming to manufacture their consent.  In response, the Lord rebuked the disciples knowing what was in their hearts.  Indeed, the disciples hated the nameless and faceless multitude and felt superior to them.  To suggest that they go down to the market was the equivalent of sentencing their souls to a hell that they would have never returned from.

After rebuking the disciples, the Lord intervened divinely.  He did so to perform His truest of miracles, beyond even His feeding of the multitude, by stripping away all property and possessions from the disciples.  For they would become the future apostles after all appointed so in order to replace the fallen and corrupted emperors.  He then Willed all the property and possessions over to the nameless and faceless multitude.  Indeed, the Lord did command that the multitude lay back where they stood doing so as if they were kings before turning His attention to the disciples and commanding that they serve them.  This request by the Lord for the disciples to serve the countless multitude of nameless and faceless amounted to the most severe of all demotions.

In response to these actions of the one and true Lord Jesus Christ, the nameless and faceless rejoiced making the impossible jobs of their newly designated disciple servants a very easy task.

The disciples went on to obey Jesus out of fear.  Indeed, they knew Jesus possessed the power of death after witnessing Him curse a fig tree and making its fruit fall immediately from it (Mark 11, Matthew 21).    

This is why Jesus made the stumbling up of the children of God the very worse offense one can ever commit (Matthew 18:6).  Be mindful though how tyranny doesn't begat tyranny alone, but tyranny is breathed into life by empowerment.  It wasn't the drunkards king Herod or the prefect Pontius Pilate who stood under the judgement of the Holy Spirit, but the greatest among those responsible for empowering them.  I'm talking here about Saul of Tarsus.  Indeed, it was he who offended (stumbled up) the children of God.  And so it was he who Jesus confronted concerning persecution as is revealed in the book of Acts 9:

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
"Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

So, let this be a warning to all those who empower tyranny whether it be domestic or abroad.

Fd. Uncle Emanuel Watkins
Prime Minister of these united States