
I know this will be unpopular with a few people here but I’m sick and tired of conspiracy theories.
The list of conspiracy theories is endless – from moon landing deniers, flat earth believers, New World Order nuts, 9/11 nuts, to endless theories blaming Freemasons, Rothschilds, Jews, Jesuits or whatever group the conspiracy theorist seems to dislike. All palpable nonsense.
It’s an addiction bordering on paranoia. Conspiracy theory addicts will turn their noses up at credible and obvious explanations of an event and instead embrace some wild theory encompassing the Clintons, George Soros, Aliens, Buzz Aldrin and a grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas. Deny them at your peril – you will be told its obvious, staring you in the face and why can’t anyone else see it except themselves. Anyone who disagrees is a stupid “normie”, devoid of the deductive genius that they posess or in thrall to world elites and the MSM.
I’m not talking here about a healthy degree of scepticism and questioning accepted narratives, but something more unhinged than this. Something that happens because people need to connect events and see patterns which aren’t there to make sense of a confusing world, to help deal with anxiety and to make themselves feel special and convince themselves that everyone else is stupid.
Conspiracy theory addicts are trapped in a vicious circle. The cycle of addiction becomes destructive as negative feelings contribute to the belief in conspiracies and the belief in conspiracies results in negative feelings. Sufferers then spend hours trawling the less reputable places on the internet to reinforce these beliefs, creating more anxiety for themselves in the process which they remedy by reading up on even more far out conspiracies.
Conspiracy theory addicts are like opium addicts. Both are destructive patterns of behaviour.
And no, I have not been paid by MI6, the FBI or George Soros to write this.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/why-qanon-followers-are-opioid-addicts-why-matters-ncna1277323
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0963721417718261
https://rehabaid.com/addiction/conspiracy-theory/
(Additional link provided by our on staff therapist, Night Admin – NA)
Nominated by: MMCM