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@futurebird @celesteh
This all ties in to a topic I've diatribed about before. To try sum up:

People buy into asinine conspiracies because:

1) The crisis of epistemology: It is getting tougher to know what sources to trust, or have internal tools to discern who to trust.

2) When you feel ignorant and powerless, latching onto ideas that seem hidden & deep, makes you feel empowered and in-the-know in ways others aren't. Even if you can't do anything, you now have "knowledge" others lack.