Why Your Conspiracy Theory Is Just A Way To Feel Special
Why Your Conspiracy Theory Is Just A Way To Feel Special There is a certain type of person who doesn’t just read the news. They decode the news. They don’t watch events. They connect the dots . They don’t believe what everyone else believes because they are not “sheep.” They are special. Or at least, they really, really want to feel special. Conspiracy theories are very attractive, not because they are always true or false, but because they make the person who believes them feel like they are part of a secret club. A small group of “awake” people who know what’s really going on while the rest of the world is just blindly living their lives, going to work, paying bills, and not decoding license plate numbers for hidden messages. The psychology is actually very simple. Normal life is boring. You wake up, go to work, sit in traffic, answer emails, worry about money, watch Netflix, sleep, repeat. There is nothing glamorous about normal life. But if you believe in a big ...