My view is that much of the time much of the world is mostly benign, but we have to prepare for when it isn't: when things are benign things will go right no matter what choices we make, it's when they aren't that our choices matter. Gavin was totally unprepared to be the target of a conman that was willing to spin an arbitrarily convoluted story -- while I was prepared. But at the end of the day I'm the target of two lawsuits one demanding billions the other demanding hundreds of billions, sucking up my time and causing me stress and he isn't. So much for being 'right'. 
I think I'd rather be in his position: You'd all think I'm a fool or corrupt, sure, but no one who cares what random people on the internet thinks will ever be happy.
I think I'd rather be in his position: You'd all think I'm a fool or corrupt, sure, but no one who cares what random people on the internet thinks will ever be happy.I think the world in general responds to you, or at least your surrounding environment does. Even if I compare "life" to this forum, I can draw some comparisons. Perhaps a bit of a cop-out for me, to say that I deliberately steer away from meta, where I feel I might destabilise my benign state on this forum. And if that means I don't speak out when I should, I can live with that (comments like these are as far as I go, and even so, are rare forays).
So I don't think you're a fool or corrupt. You choose your priorities, and who can fault you for choosing yourself or your happiness?
It is genuinely surprising to me that any technical person ever fell for Wright-- he just is so *obvious* with his technobabbling and bogus excuses and even was back when the endorsement happened. But if any Bitcoin contributor fell for Wright Gavin would have been the most likely both because of his trusting perspective and the fact that Wright aligned himself with Gavin's position in the political dispute at the time (which, from my perspective Gavin was losing or even had already lost). An endorsement by Satoshi would have been a total hail Mary and hard for many people to resist.
You might not see it or see why (but that's also not your fault, the way we're all wired means we can understand and comprehend some things but not empathise). I'm one of the least technical users on the forum so CW's pronouncements appear immediately to me as a conman's ramblings. It is the perhaps the curse of the technically initiated that some of his words make sense, to the point they obscure his abberant babble.