One of the best pieces of pop culture about conspiracy theories is “The Voyager Conspiracy” from #StarTrekVoyager. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyag…
This episode really captures a lot of what I’m seeing now. Seven of Nine starts seeing conspiracies everywhere as she processes insane amounts of data and information. One of them is right, but the rest get more absurd with time.
And they all are supported with evidence, they’re just not true. But even the people involved struggled to convince her it wasn’t real.
The same thing is happening to us and your friends on Facebook. Our brains cannot process all this data/info, so we’re buying into these theories.
I’m not the first one to point this out. @SkyeJethani had a great thread. But we’re seeking simple solutions to incredibly complex problems. And we have evidence to make things add up, but it’s not true.
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