Best-fit pattern in which of my friends have gone off the deep end into a conspiracy mindset: what I’d call a religious temperament (100%), a weak sense of humor (90%), and an inflated sense of their own importance (75%).
My sample is at least a dozen at this point.
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what are the components parts of what you call a religious temperament?
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It’s a gestalt of several things: a strong purity instinct, a conviction that existence is meaningful, that perfection is reachable, etc etc.
"We can do this RIGHT!" over "We can do this well / better."


