• Lianodel@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    That’s one of the things that bugs me about conspiracy theories. So many of them don’t even have a point.

    How can so many be people be so wrapped up in conspiracism, but never once have the though, “Oh, wait, why would anyone do this? It’d be pointless.”

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      1 year ago

      It’s because people aren’t wired that way. There’s a name for that phenomenon, but I forgot.

      The idea behind it is that people make up “reasons” (conspiracy strategies) that fit the event. A big event needs a big reason, they can’t just accept that some things happen due to accidents or just by chance.

      That’s why Covid can’t have been natural, it must have escaped from a lab! The government is giving us free vaccines? It can’t be that they just want to get us back to work, there must be a secret plot behind that!