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Nazism had a strange partnership with the occult; T has Q. Both were wrapped in some sort of pseudoscience legitimacy. It’s like fascism needs a malleable ‘truth’ to legitimize itself (or appeal to greater authority)while also maintaining an inaccessibility for outsiders.
Only the believers can see the ‘evidence’ which they ‘study’ without all the pesky necessity for actual open review and criticism, which perpetuates the cycle: being right enforces more being right and therefore causes the signals to bend asymptotically.
Science is actively and aggressively (frustratingly) wrong at times…it’s the mechanism through which it improves and corrects itself (even after deviating), most importantly, its structure demands a constant build up and tear down of knowledge to produce steady advancement.
Science doesn’t always offer answers, other than “working on it” and sometimes doubles back on itself as promising avenues resolve to dead ends. Seldom do things jump forward in clear breakthroughs, instead it stutters and lurches in agonizing, incremental steps.
“We don’t know…yet” initially sounds worse than “we have the one, true answer” in a time where we crave certainty and answers, and the personal peace and power that accompanies having answers. Superstition is junk food to assuage our appetite when we’re hungry for knowledge.
I think this is partially because many of us are so far removed from the process of making/doing things and the underlying necessity of being wrong and fucking up so many times before finally figuring it out.
We buy or consume everything we need, and even when we ‘make’ something we’re merely following a recipe or tutorial from somebody who already did the hard and uncertain parts.
We‘Ve abstracted ourselves from the necessity to explore and learn and the white knuckles of not knowing: in the void we get a quick fix that fills the hunger but doesn’t nourish. Anyway, yeah, I don’t see much difference between red hats and red armbands.
