Barnacle Boy
Striker
The people who lap them up are even more inadequate
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Deleted member 40035
Guest
Yes but why do you think people believe this crap?
Shack
Midfield
Eh? Because it gives them a fall sense of thinking they are more intelligent than others who don't believe it. My brother is a good example - spouts cryptic shite on Facebook, uses acronyms waiting for some to ask 'what does that mean'. Seems to be crying out to show how radical he is.
dangermows
Striker
Remember that idiot Heed the ball
One of his conspiracies was that man didn't land on the moon. He was full of data and evidence to prove it. they definitely didn't land on the moon, no sireee. We were all mugs for believing they did...……..
A few days later on a thread about aliens he informed us that they definitely existed as Nasa had secret photos of them in the distance watching as man first landed on the moon
Nice one heed.
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Deleted member 40035
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Yep it does give a sense of higher intelligence when you start to believe a conspiracy theory but I'm not the best one to judge on that subject.
Lefty Frizzell
Striker
Been in the tin foil hat crew for The best part of 20 years, was reading Icke books and watching Prison Planet before it was cool. This new wave of fans are like those kids that buy Nirvana or Green Day hoodies from Argos and think they are automatically in the crew. You're not. You need to earn your foil by taking your supplements, doing your research and paying money to watch 8hr PowerPoint presentations on stage.
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Deleted member 40035
Guest
What conspiracy theories do you believe marra? I believe in Aliens.
Yankee Mackem
Striker
People look for patterns out of noise. We're hardwired to do it. The internet just gives us more noise and pats us on the back when we spout BS.
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Deleted member 40035
Guest
Do you believe in aliens?
Yankee Mackem
Striker
I'm more worried they believe in me.
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Deleted member 40035
Guest
They don't exist marra.
Tadger
Striker
On one of Dan Carlin’s podcasts about the First World War, he briefly touches on CT and that a friend of his made this point; and it’s something that I happen to agree with, so I won’t pretend that these are my words. Basically people are inherently uncomfortable with the idea that a random person can commit an act that has such massive ramifications e.g. Gavrilo Princip assassinating Franz Ferdinand. It’s more comforting for people to think that there’s another party pulling the strings.
That, and also CTs like to feel like they’re the smartest person in the room.
That, and also CTs like to feel like they’re the smartest person in the room.
Great point. Especially true of 9/11 nutters. It was just one very pissed off arsehole organising a few other arseholes, but that doesn't make you feel very safe. It feels safer to think it was a massive conspiracy that took years to enact so won't likely happen to me. Sometimes the truth is scarier.
This, very much. You can hear it in conversations with them or in reading posts - that they may be a no-mark living in their mam's in Pallion and drinking themselves to sleep every night, but they know the inner secrets of the world because they watched a Youtube video, and you, one of the sheeple, do not.
Had a really interesting writing group session last night on conspiracy theories and how they can influence fiction.
We started by looking at the reasons people believe in CTs and your points featured highly, the bottom one especially. A lot of it is overcompensating for people who don't have control in other parts of their life.
We then created our own conspiracy theories based on three random, unrelated objects and a lot of them were very convincing. We should have an SMB competition to see who can get a new conspiracy theory to spread the farthest.
People will believe what they want to believe and people love to argue.
Nukehasslefan
Winger
If many parts to a story do not add up to appearing wholly truthful then people will question them.
By questioning official lines, any person becomes a conspiracy nut, just like that. And as simple as that.
If the conspiracy theorist argues many different points to a sold story of apparent fact, they become the enemy of the masses who buy into the story as a fact on blind faith or adherence to mass opinion..
99% of ordinary people who have a pop at conspiracy theories, calling them nonsense, are doing so because they're simply following a narrative and find it much easier to simply accept and follow the mass opinion on something, which generally gives them a stance among peers as being the sensible/intelligent people among the so called unintelligent tin foil hat questioners of stories that at best can potentially read as a lot of fiction but are argued as pure 100% fact.
The more a person argues against official lines with good arguments, that person becomes more disliked. More prone to abuse. More attacked by the masses.
In the end the very same people who do bring up good questions against official narratives...they're set apart as someone who thinks they're smarter than everyone else.
This is not the truth, it's just different ways of trying to attack the person so they don't get a foothold into people's minds and actually make them think " hmmm, that makes sense."
The reality (for now) is, most people aren't interested in questioning official lines, unless it directly affects them.
As for so called achievements and such like, sold to us....with some people not buying into it......it's immediate bile and hatred in the extremities to mere regular digs and name calling on a regular basis to keep the questioner from questioning.
The saying is very simple.
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
By questioning official lines, any person becomes a conspiracy nut, just like that. And as simple as that.
If the conspiracy theorist argues many different points to a sold story of apparent fact, they become the enemy of the masses who buy into the story as a fact on blind faith or adherence to mass opinion..
99% of ordinary people who have a pop at conspiracy theories, calling them nonsense, are doing so because they're simply following a narrative and find it much easier to simply accept and follow the mass opinion on something, which generally gives them a stance among peers as being the sensible/intelligent people among the so called unintelligent tin foil hat questioners of stories that at best can potentially read as a lot of fiction but are argued as pure 100% fact.
The more a person argues against official lines with good arguments, that person becomes more disliked. More prone to abuse. More attacked by the masses.
In the end the very same people who do bring up good questions against official narratives...they're set apart as someone who thinks they're smarter than everyone else.
This is not the truth, it's just different ways of trying to attack the person so they don't get a foothold into people's minds and actually make them think " hmmm, that makes sense."
The reality (for now) is, most people aren't interested in questioning official lines, unless it directly affects them.
As for so called achievements and such like, sold to us....with some people not buying into it......it's immediate bile and hatred in the extremities to mere regular digs and name calling on a regular basis to keep the questioner from questioning.
The saying is very simple.
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
joemcdokes
Striker
Had a really interesting writing group session last night on conspiracy theories and how they can influence fiction.
We started by looking at the reasons people believe in CTs and your points featured highly, the bottom one especially. A lot of it is overcompensating for people who don't have control in other parts of their life.
We then created our own conspiracy theories based on three random, unrelated objects and a lot of them were very convincing. We should have an SMB competition to see who can get a new conspiracy theory to spread the farthest.
People will believe what they want to believe and people love to argue.
Haway man some don’t even know the difference between a conspiracy theory and an opinion.
Yankee Mackem
Striker
That's exactly what a lizard person would say.
