We evolved in small groups of people (around 100 people or so). Conspiracies are much more feasible at that scale. It’s basically your standard political intrig

We evolved in small groups of people (around 100 people or so). Conspiracies are much more feasible at that scale. It’s basically your standard political intrigue and backstabbing. So that, IMO, is the genesis of conspiratorial thinking. Then I think people have a very hard time thinking about large scale systems, so they revert to explaining the difficult to understand with conspiracy.