Been watching history channel Shadowland investigation into conspiracy theory's and how they impact individuals.
Very hard to watch.
Many of those trapped expressed thier sadness that it has affected thier family relationships. That there family can't/wont believe the things they believe hurts them... In their certainty of being right it didn't appear to occur to them that thier family members might feel the same way. That when a argument hinges on a lack of proof as being proof of what you know with certainty, and or the certainty that a sliver a truth out weighs 9 facts is proof that thier is no room for dialog. The only people you can talk to are those that think the same things as you.
fascinating, made me question my own reality.
It is something you need to be very mindful of when you start "going down the rabbit hole" on various conspiracy theories.
I absolutely love a
good conspiracy theory when I encounter it. But I also try to remain very mindful that it is just that,
a theory. But the reality is, most "conspiracy theories" that are out there are complete trash.
Generally speaking there seem to be two main types of the trashy theories to be found.
The ones the exist entirely as a macro-level theory that fails utterly at demonstrating anything at the micro-level. (9-11 truthers)
Then the ones that exist entirely on the micro-level that desperately try to ignore everything else. (Obama birth certificate) Although for the micro-level ones, the favored tactic is to just bombard you with a bunch of random and very tenuously connected things to try to sell you a bill of goods. Much like a fast talking salesman using a wide array of buzzwords and jargon to baffle/bludgeon the customer into agreeing to a buy.
Hollywood's tendency to "sell" novel conspiracy theories of their own in order to generate "dramatic content" for viewers also doesn't help.
NCIS(the series, not the agency it is named after),
The Blacklist, and even the
X-Files as well as
Fringe, among others, are probably major contributors to facilitating many of these people to get lost down those proverbial rabbit holes as well. The less said about what often passes for content on Discovery and The History Channel these days, the better as well.
