Now he also believes vaccines cause autism (no small irony, given he's like 90% likely to have undiagnosed Asperger), and that you need to supplement vitamin C in quantities that would make Hitler's ol' "inject methamphetamine directly into the spinal cord" doctor blush.
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Sounds like a good test-case to see if there's a way of talking people down from this stuff. For some anti-vax types it's a whole lifestyle - Steiner fans, homeopaths - but these recent converts must surely be curable - there's less of a reason for them to believe.
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It's interesting to me because it doesn't seem to push that many of the usual buttons for beliefs like this; if we look at the range of human emotional needs a fully-evolved religion (or even some less well-defined lifestyles) provides, this stuff is pretty weak.
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It's too narrow a topic for people who don't have a religious/pseudo-religious background, so it has limited community benefits. It doesn't provide comfort, but also doesn't provide a regular dose of fear. The risk is that other conspiracy theory type stuff is the next step.
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Yes, which mostly tells you how weak our institutions and social fabric have become - most people are barely even duct taped together.
This is what people inside establishment bubbles can't understand. It's a jungle out here. Nobody actually believes in anything anymore.
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No, I mean he understands that nobody actually believes in anything anymore.
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"Well, -I- only see exploitable meatbags. Why would anyone else see anything else?"
I don't know; Ian's covered him pretty well, I'm not sure how much of Trump's gaslighting is based upon a Bannon game plan. The early (orchestrated?) chaos has certainly built up an army of people who will praise him for literally anything he does.
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