Often explains the thinking behind the demonisation of groups suspected of controlling systems of power or wanting to better than bigotry.
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This has much to do with growing narcissism (i.e. people centered on their own pain and blind to others') which leads to greater paranoia...
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Did you happen to see this research? http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/uw-professor-the-information-war-is-real-and-were-losing-it/ … About conspiracy think and social media.
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No! Thanks!
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many consp theorists are simply...unread--lack historical knowledge/context. Uneducated. Curse of illiterate society.
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Boris Johnson, for years critical of war
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There certainly seems to be plenty of examples that as soon as critics of the establishment join them, then they become them. Conspiracy?
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What is true is that whoever who are elected inevitably follow the same foreign policy of those they replaced. Conspiracy? appears to be
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Conspiracy seems different from corporate-military-industrial hegemony. Or whatever one calls it.
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I disagree it is also an deeper psychological ailment. I had an highly intelligent friend that went down the deep end on climate change.
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Highly intelligent doesn't necessarily mean deeply read with a sound sense of history and historical context.
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Conspiracy theorists bug me bc they tend to assume everything is a super-clever scheme dreamed up by madmen geniuses. Real world is messy.
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The thought of the world being random is terrifying. Conspiracy theories help make sense of things.
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Conspiracies provide psychological comfort; they explain seemingly random events.
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Lets be honest here. Conspiracy Theory should be the default position of any rationalist When proved not to be a conspiracy, time for belief
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This article is pretty good on the subject at hand. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html …
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One way to answer the question of how widespread conspiracy theories are is to look at the research. From American Conspiracy Theories p78.pic.twitter.com/QvtSP8HU4z
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