Strange to see someone I like deriding, not specific conspiracy theorists or their ideas, but the process by which one becomes a conspiracy theorist. It would seem to me that such a process is a fairly normal coping mechanism when you are consistently surrounded by narrative crafting and purposeful misinformation and memory-holing.
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nostr:npub1kdyzl44h6mhyl4djtf20w0t7avsy09umshq2k2czjf62ps774phqcd2hnf The pattern that I've noticed. Is that people who were raised to accept their truth based on authority, once they break free from the main stream, they are vulnerable to the next authority figure.
Can't trust modern medicine? Immediately get pulled into homeopathic and "quantum" medicine.
Can't trust modern science? Immediately get captured by some hack that has a simple but flawed test to prove the earth is flat.
Can't trust the government? Real patriots in control, Q is going to save us!
They are somehow able to accept these, worse alternatives, because they have no mechanism for determining if something is true or false.