thomas

How is it that the “do your own research” crowd (e.g., conspiracy theorists) also tend to be the ones who get to the wrong conclusions?

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Belief in conspiracy is often driven by a deep idea that the individual has no control over their own life, thus a belief in some outside, super powerful cabal becomes the scapegoat for lack of responsibility. If things fail it's because "they" have made it so. Once this idea becomes entrenched any idea outside of this belief is from people working in league with "them" 

I used to be one of them, a full blown truther, then I got out by educating myself on psychology and sociology. It took awhile to crawl back out of the rabbit hole once you get deep enough to realise it's all nonsense

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One of my fellow nuts said to me "you know Michelle Obama is a man right" and it was like a big ol' wake up from the double sleep moment. I said a) obviously she isn't and b) it wouldn't matter if she was. And that lead me into learning about the psychology behind it, then deeper into my own psychology, then sociology and things just clicked. Was nice to get out of that mentality and begin taking responsibility for my own life

What was the turning point for you that lead you to want to do more research, and challenge your previous beliefs?