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How Three Big #ConspiracyTheories Took Root in Canada | The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/conspiracy-theories-canada/ (1/4)
“An important dynamic of people falling into a #conspiratorial milieu is how such theories can help rationalize difficulties an individual may be experiencing by flattening complexity and providing answers that soothe and distract from uncomfortable realities. (2/4)
Rather than accepting that negative circumstances were often the result of individual choices in the face of a global pandemic, #AntiVaccine conspiracists evoke global-domination conspiracies about the #WorldEconomicForum to explain away a complicated situation and ameliorate responsibility for personal circumstances.” (3/4)
“Fringe beliefs are fringe until they’re not, and the mainstreaming process can be aided by academics and other prominent thinkers. Education is an important tool in building up bulwarks against conspiratorial thinking, but it’s not a silver bullet. Conspiracism masquerading as legitimate thought is influencing educated, powerful Canadians.” (4/4)
@auscandoc the paradox is that all the people pushing giant conspiracy theories are actually trying to gain the power and control they are telling you someone else (an other) has.
That there are ready examples of companies/industries concealing their detrimental deeds and governments openly defying their own laws (violently disrupting peaceful protests) and taking positions opposite of the populace they ostensibly serve provides fertile ground for demagoguery.
@EdSanders Absolutely on point.
E.g. “The mills, principally operating from China, India, Iran, Russia and other post-Soviet states, have even been planting stooges in editors' chairs at certain journals and paying bribes to others to ensure fake papers are published.”
https://mastodon.social/@mackayim2022/112487077544361219
But try and tell the conspiracy mongers this and 