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Smart is a loaded word here. A lot of intelligent people close off their minds to "conspiracy theories" because they have been conditioned to dismiss them, not because they are stupid.
Folks susceptible to societal conditioning to the point that it combats their ability to think critically aren't intelligent at all. They're just "staying safe" when it comes to the opinions of their tribe members. They're cowards who find the approval of their peers to be far more important than any truth. Hiding in the crowd to stay safe is smart on a survival level but not the kind of intelligence that society needs.
Truly intelligent people eventually overcome their societal conditioning. People who can't see through it are fucking stupid, regardless of how many degrees they have.
This is very well said. Upvoted!
At the same time though, if we're totally fair to fellow anons....
It seems reasonable that the anon who remarked A lot of intelligent people close off their minds to "conspiracy theories" because they have been conditioned to dismiss them, not because they are stupid may have said this because he is an intelligent person who in the past has dismissed things due to very convincing presentation as "conspiracy theories" and then later realized the error in so doing. One goal of the cabal psy op, after all, is to shut down critical thinking, even in intelligent people. Occasionally they're going to snag some victims. This anon, if he was, is no longer one.
Education vs intelligence, after all. You can be well-read and learned, but that doesn't make you intelligent. Being intelligent also does not make you educated, although if you apply yourself you do have an advantage in acquiring knowledge.
I agree. And many people "play it safe" publicly, even when they know they are being cowardly in doing so.
The other night, I was at a party, and starting talking with someone, where the conversation got onto NFL football.
I forget exactly what he said, but then he followed it up with, "Oh, and I didn't mean to speak in offensive language" or something similar.
I said, "Hey, fuck that bullshit! We need to stop with this political correct nonsense. I still call the Washington Redskins the Redskins."
He immediately said, "Oh, cool. I agree, but it seems like we need to be careful these days."
Conversation got better once he dropped the bullshit facade of self-censorship.
exactly. I doubt many of us here can be 'conditioned'.
we're contrarians🐸
I think this can happen in the conspiracy theory community as well. Lets say that someone found evidence that Q was an operation to quench the thirst of rebellion. No matter how compelling the evidence may be, many people here will stick with Q and think that it's only shills saying this. People can get caught in their ways on both sides of the aisle.
Insightful? Discerning? I just wanted to slap the name callers hard. To be fair, no one is being called stupid.
Refusing to look at reality for what it is ... is a form of stupidity.
Truly ignorance can be worse than stupidity
The willfully ignorant are the really dangerous people.
They can be so sure in their wrongness, and want to enforce it on others.
Pattern recognition is basic survival instinct, ask anyone or any animal.
Now the left wants to call you raySis
That's what we are really talking about here.
And you are correct -- even "unintelligent" animals can figure out certain things.
"Humans are the only animals that are smart enough to manufacture their own food, and dumb enough to eat it." -- [I forget who said it]
That's a good example.
I love when people in-person start their sentence with:
“I don’t want to sound sexist, but—.”
“I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but—.”
I smile and tell them they can say what they like. Then actual conversations occur. It’s odd that the populace is afraid of the liberal gestapo freaking out and cancelling them.
They poisoned us with vaccines in our youth which turned us into the first mass generation of adult autists. They thought we would be discards of society. But God decided to use this mishandling of his children for his own purposes. He weaponized us with memes and data analytics in this invisible war and we became their worst enemies. Long live the anons autists! WWG1WGA
Elon endorsing Trump gained the right even more autists. I personally know libtard autistic men that thought twice when they heard their autistic hero speaking out.
The only thing about this meme, and I do love this meme, is that it doesn’t allow for the target the meme is aimed at being part of the conspiracy…
No idea how wide that reality may or may not be..
Smart has nothing to do with it. There are people who want to know the truth, and make the effort to search for it, and there are people who are too lazy and apathetic to do anything other than accept what is spoon-fed to them.
Applicable to most people? Nawww...I think applicable to maybe 1% of the population. Most people come on board when whatever "Conspiracy Theory" in discussion is proven to no longer be just a "Theory." In my opinion, "Most people will not be confused by facts that contradict their own preconceived opinions."
+Someone with deductive reasoning and who thinks for themselves.
It’s not that I’m smarter. It’s that I’m CURIOUS when things don’t add up because I’m seeing patterns. I started waking around 2018 when the MSM was constantly bashing Trump who I saw was doing a good job.
Before then I don’t know activity that would have woke me up. Unfortunately, 9/11 coincided with me going through a divorce so that had all of my research time and attention.
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Too true
This is what "conspiracy theory" ability is all about.
Some people have an aptitude for drawing abstract ideas from limited -- and incomplete -- concrete facts.
This ability allows one to understand that a narrative being promoted by mainstream propaganda is probably not true, and something else must be the real explanation.
Most people do not have this ability. Therefore, since they cannot see it, they assume that others who claim to see it must be either stupid or crazy.
In fact, they are the ones who are stupid.
Dunning-Kruger Effect: People of lesser intelligence assume that everyone else is roughly similar to themselves, and cannot comprehend how others might be significantly smarter, at least in some aspects of life.
It is not necessarily about overall intelligence, but a specific sub-set of intelligence related to abstract thinking -- which includes "connecting dots" to realize that mainstream narratives are often proven false, which means that one should discount such narratives from the beginning (others never seem to make this connection).
That about sums it up.