I don't think I was necessarily wrong, but it was incomplete for sure. A more sympathetic response is that conspiracy theories provide comfort. Sometimes that's just the comfort of assuaging your own cognitive dissonance. I.e. -- admitting that X is true means admitting that I've been horribly wrong about Y and Z my whole life, which would mean I've been a bad person. Much better to believe that X is just a huge conspiracy.
But also, conspiracy theories for some help bring order to a scary chaotic world. If a deranged person can shoot up an elementary school in Connecticut then that sort of thing can happen anywhere and to anyone, and there's no rhyme or reason to it. But if I buy into the whole CIA false flag theory, then there's reasons why things happen, and no actual children were harmed. Better to believe the conspiracy than to think the world is random and dangerous.
And then of course you have people who may or may not believe, but are happy to sell the conspiracy because it advantages them politically or financially or whatever.Statistics: Posted by Mike — Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:00 am
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