The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Believing in conspiracies is comforting because it implies someone controls everything.
- In plain terms
- People like conspiracies because they hate thinking no one is in charge.
- What can you take from it?
- Chaos is scarier than a controlled enemy.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is scarier: control or chaos?
- Why do we seek patterns?
Another view
It dismisses the possibility of organized harm.
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