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Originally Posted by FairmontGS
Science Daily has a good short piece on conspiracy theorists and why they think "someone" is "responsible" for whatever it is that ails them.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0925075108.htm
"These people tend to be more suspicious, untrusting, eccentric, needing to feel special, with a tendency to regard the world as an inherently dangerous place,"
"They are also more likely to detect meaningful patterns where they might not exist. People who are reluctant to believe in conspiracy theories tend to have the opposite qualities."
Then there's the 2 constant themes recurrent in every theorist's beliefs:
1. "The power held by heads of state is second to that of small unknown groups who really control world politics," and
2. "Groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public."
and
"...if you are the type of person who looks out at the world and sees a chaotic, malevolent landscape full of senseless injustice and suffering, then perhaps there is a modicum of comfort to be found in the notion that there is someone, or some small group of people, responsible for it all. If 'there's something going on,' then at least there is something that could be done about it." |
Apart from that last paragraph, the term conspiracy theory suggests all info from government, govt funded organisations and media is the truth and the only truth. This is an effective way of mind control, and equally effective way to ostracise anyone that questions the status quo.
How far fetched does a conspiracy theory have to be?
Consider this mild example from New Zealand last year, with the socialist Ardern and her incompetent Labour government that are immune from any press scrutiny.
Her Government holds a Labour youth summer camp, where government employees and volunteers illegally supply excess amounts of alcohol to underage kids.
Four 16 year old kids are sexually assaulted at the camp by a 21 year old male. This was kept from the public for 6 weeks. Victims weren't advised to go to the police or offered counselling services. The opposite has been reported by the teens.
The press get hold of the story while the same time the Govt goes into damage control. ALL social media pics of the night are erased from the internet.
The suspect has a very prolonged (19 months) trial. He is the son of a high up Government minister. The judge is the brother in law of an ex Labour politician who is still active behind the scenes.
Suspect pleaded guilty and is discharged without conviction and still has name suppression.
So called feminist prime minister denies all knowledge of it.
MeToo is trending across the globe at the same time yet fails to gain traction in NZ because of this.
Feminist journos loyal to the prime minister band together and rip up their onslaught of male guilt inducing MeToo opinion pieces they were ready to publish (this is my assumption but prob not far from the truth).
Mainstream press does their best to help the govt sweep this **** up under the rug.
After a few days it was third page news.
This progressive Govt is operating the equivalent of an 'old boys club'. The Govt trivialised young sexual assault victims and tried to silence them. The Govt also managed to erase all photos and videos from the net of that weekend.
Anyone pointing these facts out is considered a conspiracy theorist because the media are too gutless to report facts and government employees did a good job of saving their cushy 6 figure incomes.