QAnon is probably the worst of it, but I'm talking about the "election was stolen!" types, the Deep State folks, Seth Rich, Comet Ping Pong, the whole gamut.
Some just have their toe in the water and can perhaps be saved.
Some just dove right in and despite getting exhausted from treading water, they refuse all life lines.
Has anyone found a way to lead them out of the hole they're in?
In a general sense: what is it about the human psyche that makes it prone to believing in such apparently unbelievable, evidence-poor stories?
What happened to them?
QAnon is probably the worst of it, but I'm talking about the "election was stolen!" types, the Deep State folks, Seth Rich, Comet Ping Pong, the whole gamut.
Some just have their toe in the water and can perhaps be saved.
Some just dove right in and despite getting exhausted from treading water, they refuse all life lines.
Has anyone found a way to lead them out of the hole they're in?
In a general sense: what is it about the human psyche that makes it prone to believing in such apparently unbelievable, evidence-poor stories?
What happened to them?
Are you speaking from personal experiences in your family?
I'll talk about them a bit later. Right now, I'm speaking about the experiences of a wide variety of people living in a lot of places.
The conspiracy stuff really has become quite the phenomenon, it seems.
The Covid falsehoods, the nonsense about masks--I'm just talking about all of the stuff that would be patently silly to a regular, nonpartisan individual with an ounce of common sense.
How do some people sink into it?
Is there something about how our brains are wired that make some of us easy to dupe like this?
How does it happen?
Just out conspiracy them and see what happens.
Ask your friends an family; you guys on the left are the biggest CT crowd. Just look back over the past four years - you’ve had some form of conspiracy theory about Trump from the moment he announced to his very day.
QAnon is probably the worst of it, but I'm talking about the "election was stolen!" types, the Deep State folks, Seth Rich, Comet Ping Pong, the whole gamut.
Some just have their toe in the water and can perhaps be saved.
Some just dove right in and despite getting exhausted from treading water, they refuse all life lines.
Has anyone found a way to lead them out of the hole they're in?
In a general sense: what is it about the human psyche that makes it prone to believing in such apparently unbelievable, evidence-poor stories?
What happened to them?
The conspiracy stuff really has become quite the phenomenon, it seems.
Ask your friends an family; you guys on the left are the biggest CT crowd. Just look back over the past four years - you’ve had some form of conspiracy theory about Trump from the moment he announced to his very day.
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