Dizzie
Temporal Navigator
While it may be tantamount to heresy to post this article on a forum that deals in oddities, the story intrigued me and unnerved me. I found myself drawing some similarities in the benefits enjoyed by conspiracy theorists to my own experience with religious beliefs.
While this correlation does not produce a logical assumption that the two concepts (conspiracy and mainline religion) are in any way ethically or otherwise similar in nature, it does produce a question for me. Namely, does the idea that Conspiracy Theorism is a de facto religion merit further study and, if so, what might the implications of that be?
Some are hinted at in the article - https://www.wired.com/story/conspiratorial-thinking-qanon-beliefs/
While this correlation does not produce a logical assumption that the two concepts (conspiracy and mainline religion) are in any way ethically or otherwise similar in nature, it does produce a question for me. Namely, does the idea that Conspiracy Theorism is a de facto religion merit further study and, if so, what might the implications of that be?
Some are hinted at in the article - https://www.wired.com/story/conspiratorial-thinking-qanon-beliefs/
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