A friend of mine just messaged me a video that claims Stevie Wonder can see.
I told him that the video is dumb, scientifically inaccurate, and why the hell target Stevie Wonder?
I mean of all the shitty people in the world you could spend time and energy targeting and making videos about, why Stevie Wonder?
I have recommendations for conspiracy theorist to really focus on, some groups that truly are shitty people: Neo Nazis, Scientologists, Pal Pot apologists.
When people are scared or disempowered, their ability to be effective and to trust institutions is impaired. Instead of trusting science, experience, effort, and truth, they make up or latch on to woo and stories to regain a sense of control and effectiveness.
People who want to gain and keep power know this, and make conditions desperate so that many who depend on effective institutions are left vulnerable and frustrated, and ready to blame someone. Add to that targeted misinformation campaigns in media (remember Cambridge Analytica?) and you have a recipe for a frustrated, angry, and credulous population that will help keep power concentrated in the hands of the very same people who are holding them down.
My friend is pro conspiracy and it puts me off him bc i have problems with delusions, delusions that are untrue and fixed, luckily those fixed beliefs have mostly ‘unfixed’ themselves,
So the last thing i need is some bozo talking shite about everything i have learned growing up, they are not beliefs conspiracy theories are delusions and most of these people need help, they try and prove things but their sources are very questionable.
It’s shakes the sensibilities and shocks the public but don’t shoot the messenger, they were once as shocked as you but once it’s exposed they expose. Also I bet you think sex trafficking is a conspiracy theory. It’s an epidemic!
