In fact I'm not. I never said that conspiracy theories couldn't be intelligent or that intelligent people can't be crazy. What separates intelligent people from conspiracy theories isnt necessarily intelligence it's sanityJohn Nash says hi.
(You are making the wrong point.)
Then you are not answering the OP's questionIn fact I'm not. I never said that conspiracy theories couldn't be intelligent or that intelligent people can't be crazy. What separates intelligent people from conspiracy theories isnt necessarily intelligence it's sanity
As I read "what separates intelligent folks from conspiracy theorists". I am. Now if the OP is inferring something in that question, as it looks like he must as he liked your post, then yes I am. I didn't read it as he was implying conspiracy theorists weren't intelligent.Then you are not answering the OP's question
Absolutely. That speaks to the point I was making. Sanity is a sliding scale.I'm fascinated by the psychology around conspiracy theorists. It has tone some version of paranoid schizophrenia. A ran into a guy who I knew from 20 years ago and he was into all sorts of crazy conspiracy ####. I tried talking some sense into him and he didn't want to hear it. Left me thinking he had developed some mental illness later on in life and needed to be treated for it. It was sad to see.
lots of intelligent folks are conspiracy theorists.
Nothing. Conspiracy theorists can be highly intelligent. The wording and premise of this is wrong.
That's what all you black ops types say just to get the masses to buy your energy drinks. Didn't think we'd catch on, did ya'?-fish- said:I had to do a talk on how conspiracy theories are generated for a trade event. There have been a significant amount of studies that show that education is the biggest factor in belief in conspiracy theories, but even at the postdoc level about 25% of people believe in some type of conspiracy theory (it's around 50% at high school education and below). The more interesting part for me is why people believe them and spread them. There are a couple decent books on it. The best explanation I've read is that we're physiologically not comfortable with gaps in information, and that when coupled with stress our brains will accept just about any factual overlay that will fill the gap, even if it's "crazy." We're also hardwired to help alleviate this stress in others, so there's an imperative to spread the factual "solution" to others. Anxiety+lack of information=conspiracy soup.
Take a look at this IG post from NASA:I know a lot of educated and intelligent people that are nuts on conspiracies. I think a part of it for some of them is the feeling/desire to be smarter than everyone else or to look down on others. Like they have some big secret and everyone else doesn't. It's weird.
I think there are a few different reasons why people get into these weird space theories (whole different sect from the political ones, but surely there is overlap). Yes, the images could be faked, but why would NASA do that and how could you keep the faking a secret for all these years? What is the logic here? I don't think it is logic. It's something different, deep in the personality. A sickness of thought almost. There's a solid chance that all people are no more than cells in a greater body, working in fluidity to accomplish a goal so big that it's irrelevant to our daily motions. In this case, our collective thoughts are what we as people are. We, collectively, believe humans have been to space. However, this minority denies space travel and become this collective self doubt (not unlike the individuals self doubt we regularly feel). Do some people just have an innate desire to be a cancer to humanity? Can we all try to ignore them just as we would personal thoughts of self doubt?Take a look at this IG post from NASA:
https://instagram.com/p/BTFtrhiBppB/
Amazing discovery! The universe is just mind boggling, how it keeps expanding and we're discovering new galaxies or dying old galaxies all the time. So inspiring.
Now read the comments. In particular, the flat earth folks & complaints of "obviously photoshopped" & "this was done on X-box."
I'll hang up & listen if you have an explain.
No ####, Sherlock!Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.