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In short, reality - and particularly the reality of government - is boring and often disappointing. Conspiracy theories are dramatic, mysterious, exciting - and you, the theorist, get to be one of the heroes of the story, standing out from the “sheeple.” https://bit.ly/2VvCYEc
A lot of people want to believe the world is accurately described by Blade: “You better wake up. The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping! There is another world beneath it: the real world. And if you wanna survive it, you better learn to pull the trigger.”
More classically minded folk might think of Plato’s cave — what we see determines our understanding of the world, whether or not it is the full picture. https://bit.ly/2VvCYEc
In this worldview, the conspiracy theorist is Fox Mulder, Neo, Sherlock Holmes or Batman connecting the dots, finding the clues. They’ve found the glasses from They Live that show only the truth. Buy into this, and become one of the select few who can see through the illusion.
