This quote in the middle of the article seems key to understanding the phenomenon: >>Naomi Klein examines the mushrooming of conspiracism in her new book Doppe

This quote in the middle of the article seems key to understanding the phenomenon: >>Naomi Klein examines the mushrooming of conspiracism in her new book Doppelganger, noting that people often come under its sway because they are searching for a practical solution to a sense of unfairness. Conspiracists have a “fantasy of justice”, hoping that the evil-doing elites can be arrested and stopped. “Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right,” she writes. “The feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit … the feeling that important truths are being hidden.” She quotes digital journalism scholar Marcus Gilroy-Ware’s conclusion that: “Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy and justifiable political instinct: suspicion.” They want to understand the unfariness, but lack particular mental capacity to do so — the combination of intellectual capacity and education required to manage complex research (filtering ofr credibility) and understanding complex interactions — and so are lead into simpler wrong explanations by those who exploit spread of information, and/or the fellow deluded Useful Idiot (V.Lenin sense) 'fellow travelers'. It would be amusing if it weren't as dangerous to society as it is baffling.