Do you think it requires imagination, do you think it can be provoked by a lack of global knowledge ?

That's a huge amount of people, even if it's a minority ?

Do you mean paranoia, which is a psychological disorder or do you simply mean uninformed/misinformed?
It looks you like mean both, but in reality people who suffer from schizophrenia or paranoia don't have the headspace to bring conspiracies to the level that they are today (or in any time).

I am afraid it's both: fear triggered by a lack of global knowledge, then desesperately following social medias, getting caught, easy answers, and the vicious circle begins.

You know we all have the potential disorders waiting to ambush us, to fail us.

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Sep 8 2021 05:39am

You will hardly find sense in his flawed logic as claiming burgerking is bad for your health is same level of conspiracy theory to him as a flat earth.

Its purely an issue with people having limited cognitive ability. If people were able to think logically more than a few steps on a chessboard, conspiracy theories would fall apart. That's not some physiological chemical imbalance specific to a few nutters, its a common trait through our entire population, because the vast majority of people are morons. The same threads of illogic are present in those few isolated tinfoil conspiracy wackos who thought 9/11 was an inside job, as are present in the mainstream democratic party that thinks Trump was in cahoots with Russia, or the Qanon believers who think celebrities are all in on some child sex ring. They're people of the land. The common clay of the new west.

So it's like a plague in our modern societies. And some assholes are ready to exploit it.

Its part of the human condition. Its like saying humans are a plague on our modern societies. Humans aren't supercomputers capable of critically analyzing every thread. People have believed in illogical theories for as long as civilization has existed and will continue to do so long after we are dead.

how can you explain that 75% or more of people are not falling into these conspiracist theories ? It's just weak people and we have to take care of it instead of letting populists exploit it, using fear, using easy answers and scapegoating.

o rly