Edit: just had to add... author = JEFFREY GOLDBERG..... Hahaha. EVERY! FUCKING! TIME!
The word 'conspiricy theorists' is the conspiracy!
People talking and discussing the current zeitgeist is what people should always be doing has its apart of critical thinking, observation and much much more.
When you actually think about it, the word conspiracy and theorist don't actually fit the act! But that was never the point,the point was to always out a negitive turn on anyone they label with it which works very well!
I never let schooling get in the way of my education
The truth is still the truth, even in a minority of 1
And the truth is..... A RACE of people, not religion, have always and will always try and have all the power and control. They been at it for millennia and will continue forever has we have been told and warned for r millennia.
Perhaps the nation's leadership should consider not constantly lying to the citizenry as one possible means of combating conspiracy theories? I mean, how do you expect not to generate a bunch of weird cognitive dissonance in people when you snap their focus back and forth between expert missives like "masks are ineffective and pointless! don't buy them!" and "wearing masks is essential! only idiots refuse to wear masks!" in a matter of a few months?
Dismantling the two-tiered justice system which allows everyone beyond a certain level and wealth and power to walk scot free from absolutely heinous crimes would also be helpful here.
> I mean, how do you expect not to generate a bunch of weird cognitive dissonance in people when you snap their focus back and forth
Note that it's the media who amplify the real "signal" to the dumbed-down messages. The more accurate message were "we are entering the epidemics unprepared, please don't try to buy the mask as even the doctors don't have enough of them."
But then the people would rightfully ask "hasn't somebody actually been dearly paid to make sure that there are enough masks, especially since it was known that some event like this is extremely probable" etc.
And note that those that amplify them aren't the experts. When, for example, some virologist who regularly comes in contact with even deadlier viruses says, from his experience, that "thin masks don't work" it's because for his use case (being regularly exposed) they indeed completely don't work -- he'd die if he'd use them. However, an epidemiologist, considering the possible reduction of infection rate, would not give the same answer, but he was not in the media at all then!
The media are dumb when amplifying, but the media are also guided by their own agendas, and that is what also must be recognized.
And of course, "We've always been at war with Eastasia":
So yes, intentionally making the population dumb can give exactly the results we see. Unfortunately there are indeed people who do have such agendas, for various reasons. Some are very rich, and do this for decades. And even organize with others who share their views (actual conspiracies, but don't call them so). And some individuals even admit their agendas. The producer of Ancient Aliens, for example, is intentionally against science:
“It’s really a show about looking for God. Science would have you believe we are the result of nothing more than a chance assemblage of matter. The real truth is we don’t know.”
The questions posed by the ancient astronaut theorists, however far-fetched, serve a rare purpose, according to Mr. Burns: “It allows the audience to wonder. And very few things on television do that.”"
In short, people are actually being intentionally misinformed, people actually "feel" that, but the misdirection often still works. Look, shiny UFO lizards. And bleach. And hydroxychloro..whatever. And some other country is guilty. And it's used from both left and right! During the Nobel peace-prize winner's presidency "happened" both the Libya and Syria wars, or whatever, we've always been at war with Eastasia. And against drugs. No, we aren't doing this because there are biggest oil reserves, escalating during the pandemic, we just do our war on drugs. And you are just Fake News, shut up.
We have this kind of people leader in Brazil. They prefer being delusional and sometimes to believe that thousands and thousands of people are organised, working together. Seems like they never managed a team to know how hard is to make people work together.
A particularly short article with no real look into how or why the conspiracy theorists are winning beside Russia, or beyond the president being one.
Small quotes from an Egyptian preacher immediately following 9/11, yet another recap of a cultured interview with Alex Jones in a Tex Mex restaurant, and Donald Trump is, of course, a terrible president.
Yes, I’m aware the town is being flooded. But between the folks who now have beachfront property, the ones who have already drowned, and the others congregating in the local gym, I’m not sure anyone is left to read this and take anything away from it.
Conspiracy Theorists are winning because we humans are mostly stupid (yours truly included) and will jump on any simple answer to complex issues. Because people are afaird and are looking for someone to blame or a "leader" to follow.
IMO, there is only one way to combat it: politicians most stop politician-speak and learn to give simple answers.
Conspiracies are everywhere in the world. Corruption and deceit is everywhere in the world. Refusing to acknowledge this means you are pathetically ignorant or serving an agenda.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 30.3 ms ] threadThe word 'conspiricy theorists' is the conspiracy!
People talking and discussing the current zeitgeist is what people should always be doing has its apart of critical thinking, observation and much much more.
When you actually think about it, the word conspiracy and theorist don't actually fit the act! But that was never the point,the point was to always out a negitive turn on anyone they label with it which works very well!
I never let schooling get in the way of my education
The truth is still the truth, even in a minority of 1
And the truth is..... A RACE of people, not religion, have always and will always try and have all the power and control. They been at it for millennia and will continue forever has we have been told and warned for r millennia.
It's always those you can't critsise!
Dismantling the two-tiered justice system which allows everyone beyond a certain level and wealth and power to walk scot free from absolutely heinous crimes would also be helpful here.
Note that it's the media who amplify the real "signal" to the dumbed-down messages. The more accurate message were "we are entering the epidemics unprepared, please don't try to buy the mask as even the doctors don't have enough of them."
But then the people would rightfully ask "hasn't somebody actually been dearly paid to make sure that there are enough masks, especially since it was known that some event like this is extremely probable" etc.
And note that those that amplify them aren't the experts. When, for example, some virologist who regularly comes in contact with even deadlier viruses says, from his experience, that "thin masks don't work" it's because for his use case (being regularly exposed) they indeed completely don't work -- he'd die if he'd use them. However, an epidemiologist, considering the possible reduction of infection rate, would not give the same answer, but he was not in the media at all then!
The media are dumb when amplifying, but the media are also guided by their own agendas, and that is what also must be recognized.
And of course, "We've always been at war with Eastasia":
https://blog.erratasec.com/2016/02/weve-always-been-at-war-w...
So yes, intentionally making the population dumb can give exactly the results we see. Unfortunately there are indeed people who do have such agendas, for various reasons. Some are very rich, and do this for decades. And even organize with others who share their views (actual conspiracies, but don't call them so). And some individuals even admit their agendas. The producer of Ancient Aliens, for example, is intentionally against science:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/style/ancient-aliens.html
“It’s really a show about looking for God. Science would have you believe we are the result of nothing more than a chance assemblage of matter. The real truth is we don’t know.”
The questions posed by the ancient astronaut theorists, however far-fetched, serve a rare purpose, according to Mr. Burns: “It allows the audience to wonder. And very few things on television do that.”"
In short, people are actually being intentionally misinformed, people actually "feel" that, but the misdirection often still works. Look, shiny UFO lizards. And bleach. And hydroxychloro..whatever. And some other country is guilty. And it's used from both left and right! During the Nobel peace-prize winner's presidency "happened" both the Libya and Syria wars, or whatever, we've always been at war with Eastasia. And against drugs. No, we aren't doing this because there are biggest oil reserves, escalating during the pandemic, we just do our war on drugs. And you are just Fake News, shut up.
That's what we get.
Small quotes from an Egyptian preacher immediately following 9/11, yet another recap of a cultured interview with Alex Jones in a Tex Mex restaurant, and Donald Trump is, of course, a terrible president.
Yes, I’m aware the town is being flooded. But between the folks who now have beachfront property, the ones who have already drowned, and the others congregating in the local gym, I’m not sure anyone is left to read this and take anything away from it.
IMO, there is only one way to combat it: politicians most stop politician-speak and learn to give simple answers.