Conspiracies

I can understand that there can actually be real conspiracies and it is okay to beleive one. But why is it that people that have a conspiratorial mindset not just stop at one or two but will end up believing like 20 different ones and mix them all together even if they conflict?
Are their brains just susceptible to a certain way of thinking and thus they fall for every one of them?

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plaguewatcher · M

i have noted this. and now i track it.
if you feel "HEY! i have been LIED too all this time?" then you look at all things with more skepticism, not the good kind.
and our pattern seeing brains will lock onto anything that might be
"yet another lie, the fucked my life with"

add to that, that many things happen, not due to deliberate human choice, but unexpected side effects.
the inventors of cars were not planning to poison the air.
the creation of opioid medicine was not a plan to make street addicts.

and since so few have ANY training,in critical thought, they are unequipped to critique their own position.