Reply #87: That's a driving element as to why certain personality types fervently deny conspiracy theories [View All]

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... your last observation pertaining to intelligence. I can't tell you how many online encounters I've been part of, or witnessed others in, where the smug CT denier is clearly fueled by a rage that stems from feeling as though 'lesser/inferior' people know something they do not. Drives em bugfuck!

"Even open-minded people will often find themselves unable to take seriously the likes of Chomsky, or Zinn, on first encountering their work; it just does not seem possible that we could be so mistaken in what we believe. The individual may assume that these writers must be somehow joking, wildly over-stating the case, paranoid, or have some sort of axe to grind. We may actually become angry with them for telling us these terrible things about our society and insist that this simply 'can't be true'. It takes real effort to keep reading, to resist the reassuring messages of the mass media and be prepared to consider the evidence again." ~ David Edwards