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It's just easier to avoid discussions. It's stupid that people who can be completely rational about most things become someone different around certain topics.

• WhisperingShiba 5y ago
  The struggle is that some of what we think is reality is actually not reality. What I learned is its only a conspiracy theory if you don't believe it /right now/. And what you believe right now is highly influenced by your culture, parents and media. In a Nietzscheian sense, I have had to start from ground zero, about what I believe, and derive understandings through direct experience of nature. Unfortunately this is slower than consensus, so I also choose to trust sources on non-political topics such as math, physics, and construction/engineering. These days I look back on how much I used to think was truth, and I later came to a realization that it was actually illusion... I don't take much as blind fact these days, and try to stick close to things I can easily understand and get immediate feedback on, such as math, engineering and growing plants. Unfortunately, since so much of my life also consists of economy and psychology, I can't completely ignore the facets of reality out of my control. At least when people tell me they actually believe in a conspiracy theory, they can give me some pre-formatted viewpoint which I cant test their premises against.