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> Now more than ever people have begun to add a layer of skepticism and treat information as separate from reality itself. This is pretty strong blanket statem
by vlunkr 4y ago
> Now more than ever people have begun to add a layer of skepticism and treat information as separate from reality itself.
This is pretty strong blanket statement. A disturbing amount of people have bought into conspiracies like Qanon in the last few years.
- corbulo 4y agoThose are a symptom of burgeoning skepticism. Just because people are acquiring newfound skepticism doesn't mean they'll believe all of the optimal and reasonable things. It goes back to normal where much like for all of previous human history, people believed ridiculous rumors all the time. It was only the last 100-150 years or so that people have really gotten locked in to the single minded ideology wars while totally locking down their sources of information.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoBelieving in conspiracies is itself skepticism. The idea behind nearly all of them is that what people in power tell you is not true and there is a separate explanation.
- antifa 4y agoContrarianism is actually not the same thing as skepticism.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoBeliefs in a conspiracy can be the majority position, and not at all a contrarian position.