alex @ charterless.com
@alexstein
People I normally respect have bought in on some crazy-ass conspiracy theories. Elon, Balaji, PMarca... all super smart, and all tweeting crazy shit. I did some research to see why people get hooked on conspiracy theories: https://www.charterless.com/p/do-your-own-research-the-psychology
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Examples of crazy conspiracy theories (minus Elon)?
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Syed Shah🏴☠️🌊
@syed
I prefer to just call them theories. Conspiracy is such a dismissive way of phrasing it. Not a fan of the label and removes important discussion and nuance.
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alex @ charterless.com
@alexstein
There are plenty of theories that fall in this grey area and shouldn't be treated that way (e.g. lab leak). There are others that point to small groups of others (usually of a different race) manipulating events for their own gain and used to justify violence. For those, it's hard to come up with another approp term.
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Syed Shah🏴☠️🌊
@syed
I have a problem with the justification for violence. As for the rest, let’s hear the theory and the evidence. It’s worth hearing because even if it’s wrong, we can have a dialogue and learn why it was wrong. Conspiracy I feel like has become a way to say we don’t need to have a dialogue about this. Similar to
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alex @ charterless.com
@alexstein
That's fair. By the research I cite in this piece, calling it conspiracies or "Crazy" is self-defeating because people dig in harder when those terms are used. But, struggled for a term to communicate that idea as quickly and effectively as "conspiracy theory". "Radicalizing narrative" also works.
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Syed Shah🏴☠️🌊
@syed
The word communicates the point really well I’m just venting about the word and the idea behind it in general.
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