[marginalium]
Conspiracy theories stack
6 Mar 2022
How and why conspiracy/fringe theories stack:
believing that Earth is flat essentially requires that you think that NASA’s achievements are part of an elaborate conspiracy: there is no ability to travel to the Moon, nor are the photographs of a globular Earth from space authentic.
Reminds me of the contrarian cluster.
Edit: I’ve written this up more comprehensively here.
Anthologies: Connection, Somatic Architecture, Thought Architecture, Narrative Culture, Psychologia, Cognitive Karstica, On Thinking and Reasoning