The surprising role of deep thinking in conspiracy theories

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-surprising-role-of-deep-thinking-in-conspiracy-theories

by bananis • 2 years ago

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illuminant5• 2 years ago

There is a grand conspiracy against your natural destinies. You and your civilization are being looted.

These crazy conspiracy sub-cultures you identify with are only the restless who "feel" something wrong yet cannot coherently relate to what.

It is a shame even HN will neg me when I say "the conventional narrative is a lie."

hindsightbias• 2 years ago

QAnon is pretty normie now, so you might rethink your ideology on conventional.

illuminant5• 2 years ago

The greatest conspiracy our time is that we are not alone in our own minds. The voices in our heads are real and they are stirring everything up with this crazy shit. There is a secret culture, and secret governance and a secret war upon us all.

I posted a link to the NY post article about the mom who killed her kids because "God" told her to, flagged immediately. Or there is the one about the woman ends up dead in a creek after hearing demonic voices. Or the half dozen shootings. That's just the last week.

No less than one in six of us can hear these voices all the time. It is taboo to speak of it.

Read my past comments, the ones which haven't been flagged anyhow. How long will this one last?

bananis2• 2 years ago

you might be interested in this article (https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-psychiatric-narrative-hinders...) – been posted here before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434484)

illuminant5• 2 years ago

Yes, and I bring first hand account it's your thought control messing with you (everyone, and for a long time.)

Look for accounts of the voices in people's heads urging them to seek medical help for problems they didn't know they had.

The voices are real and they're messing with us. It's not new, it has only accelerated (nature of modernity and all.)

Be wary and stop denying.

I should add, I believe this a part of human evolution, and we are stuck in a dark time.

bananis2• 2 years ago

by the way, for me, all this seems to have more to do with meaning-making frameworks (cf. article). all good.

throw310822• 2 years ago

I think there are two elements to consider in regards to conspiratorial thinking:

1) reality is fractal. The closer you look at facts, the more detail you see, and noise too. It becomes harder to discern a picture (or a specific picture, the accepted one).

2) the more improbable the facts, the more information and meaning you get from them. So it's tempting to connect the most unexpected elements because they're the ones that give a deeper sense of discovery.

ww2supercut• 2 years ago

It's the nugget of truth that spreads conspiracy theories. People see that they're being lied to, or a problem is less complex than it actually is, and they rightfully question what they've been told. The failure is many of these people become cynical, and instinctively reject anything the perceived authority says, which leads to crazy theories like we never went to the moon, or vaccines cause autism.

The surprising role of deep thinking in conspiracy theories

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