I have spent way too much time in conspiracy theorist circles for my own good.
I find the whole thing fascinating on a lot of levels, they are fun thought experiments but if you look at them empirically they almost all fall apart.
JFK was the last one that I placed much credence on the conspiracy narrative until I realize just how unimpressive the feat actually was...
Rob Brotherton's " Suspicious Minds"
Farhad Manjoo's "True Enough"
And Michael Shermers "Why we Believe Weird Things"
Those three books really illuminated to me the psychological reasons why people have the need to believe in giant, sweeping conspiracies.
It mostly boils down to a combination of narcissism, deep rooted insecurity and feelings of disempowerment and the good old fashioned Dunning Kruger effect causing people to have the need to feel that everything is under control, even if it is under control by "the bad guys" the belief that they are important enough for the rich elites to spend their time dreaming up ways to dupe us and the need to feel like they possess some sort of deep truth that the sheeple are just to asleep to see.
Theres actually a LOT of similarities between the global scale conspiracist mindset and that of the extreme woke intersectional Left.
I find the whole thing fascinating on a lot of levels, they are fun thought experiments but if you look at them empirically they almost all fall apart.
JFK was the last one that I placed much credence on the conspiracy narrative until I realize just how unimpressive the feat actually was...
Rob Brotherton's " Suspicious Minds"
Farhad Manjoo's "True Enough"
And Michael Shermers "Why we Believe Weird Things"
Those three books really illuminated to me the psychological reasons why people have the need to believe in giant, sweeping conspiracies.
It mostly boils down to a combination of narcissism, deep rooted insecurity and feelings of disempowerment and the good old fashioned Dunning Kruger effect causing people to have the need to feel that everything is under control, even if it is under control by "the bad guys" the belief that they are important enough for the rich elites to spend their time dreaming up ways to dupe us and the need to feel like they possess some sort of deep truth that the sheeple are just to asleep to see.
Theres actually a LOT of similarities between the global scale conspiracist mindset and that of the extreme woke intersectional Left.
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