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Anti-vaxxers and flat earthers are perfect fulfillments of American values. Watch just about any Hollywood movie or popular YA novel, isn't it always about a bu

by s_m_t 8y ago

Anti-vaxxers and flat earthers are perfect fulfillments of American values. Watch just about any Hollywood movie or popular YA novel, isn't it always about a bunch of losers discovering a conspiracy, being ignored or hindered by all the supposed experts and authorities, and joining forces with other miscontents to stop it? Your Russia comment may have just been a throwaway idea, but it is also a good example of one of these stories. The literal losers of an election invent a conspiracy to rally themselves around because it is really hard to accept that they lost.

supernovae 8y ago
On your first point, No... The typical YA novels and the growing up American story is the pain and suffering of teenagedom not throwing away all of our knowledge that the world is some giant conspiracy - that's largely an older age demographic - for some reason, people over the age of 50 love conspiracies. If you pay attention, a lot of young people are sneaking out to get vaccines and not telling their parents because quite frankly, they don't want to die from their parents mistakes. Anyay.. It wasn't until recently - the last 8-10 years that copnspiracy theories were used largely for cover ups politically - if you project enough you blame your opponent for things you're doing and hopefully you maintain power to impose your views. that's what we're running against. To your second point. Lol. Your language suggests that losers are only mad because they lost and you frame it in an overly simplistic way - ignoring the fact that Trump's campaign is under investigation and has what, 34 indictments? If that is a conspiracy theory then conspiracy theory has no meaning and well... good luck.
- s_m_t 8y ago
  I was thinking of books like harry potter, the maze runner, series of unfortunate events, hunger games, divergent. Maybe conspiracy isn't the right word, it doesn't exactly fit hunger games. I don't agree that it is mainly the olds who fall for conspiracy theory. In fact, I think that sort of thinking among young people is a sort of conspiratorial idea... The dumb boomers didn't vaccinate so its up to us young people to brave the odds vaccinate ourselves (even though only 1.3 percent of children are unvaccinated, it is unclear for what reason in every instance, and 50 year olds typically aren't in charge of vaccinating kids because... 50 year olds usually don't have children for obvious reasons. It is gen x and millenials not vaccinating their kids...). Again, conspiracy isn't exactly the right word. "Conspiracy theory" is just a tool to accomplish the same thing. I don't know exactly what it is... Give oneself some sort of importance?

by s_m_t 8y ago

supernovae 8y ago

On your first point, No... The typical YA novels and the growing up American story is the pain and suffering of teenagedom not throwing away all of our knowledge that the world is some giant conspiracy - that's largely an older age demographic - for some reason, people over the age of 50 love conspiracies. If you pay attention, a lot of young people are sneaking out to get vaccines and not telling their parents because quite frankly, they don't want to die from their parents mistakes. Anyay.. It wasn't until recently - the last 8-10 years that copnspiracy theories were used largely for cover ups politically - if you project enough you blame your opponent for things you're doing and hopefully you maintain power to impose your views. that's what we're running against. To your second point. Lol. Your language suggests that losers are only mad because they lost and you frame it in an overly simplistic way - ignoring the fact that Trump's campaign is under investigation and has what, 34 indictments? If that is a conspiracy theory then conspiracy theory has no meaning and well... good luck.

s_m_t 8y ago
I was thinking of books like harry potter, the maze runner, series of unfortunate events, hunger games, divergent. Maybe conspiracy isn't the right word, it doesn't exactly fit hunger games. I don't agree that it is mainly the olds who fall for conspiracy theory. In fact, I think that sort of thinking among young people is a sort of conspiratorial idea... The dumb boomers didn't vaccinate so its up to us young people to brave the odds vaccinate ourselves (even though only 1.3 percent of children are unvaccinated, it is unclear for what reason in every instance, and 50 year olds typically aren't in charge of vaccinating kids because... 50 year olds usually don't have children for obvious reasons. It is gen x and millenials not vaccinating their kids...). Again, conspiracy isn't exactly the right word. "Conspiracy theory" is just a tool to accomplish the same thing. I don't know exactly what it is... Give oneself some sort of importance?