The World of Conspiracies: Stupid Conspiracy Theorists
Bruno CorzinoIt's true, there are conspiracy theorists who do everything to deserve ridicule: a flat Earth, reptilians, gold in secret bunkers. But laughing at them serves to avoid looking in the mirror. Because the "rational" person, the one who believes only in certified sources, is actually identical: he believes everything that confirms his faith in authority. Two sides of the same coin, two different ways of not thinking. The first says "nothing is true," the second "everything is true if they say so." And in between, the silence of those who observe, without belonging to either church. (Introduction by the Publisher)
Of course, it must also be admitted that there is a type of "conspiracy theorist" who best embodies the caricature that "believers in authority" have in mind. A person completely devoid of critical thinking, often ignorant, who believes in the most absurd ideas, such as that the Earth is flat, that to fix an appliance you just need to write a word or a number on it, that the global elites keep their monetary value as a human being, amounting to billions in gold bars, in a hidden bunker. But these people, whom the "believer in authority" sees as his nemesis, are actually the same thing, the other side of the same coin.
Indeed, "believers in authority" sacrifice their critical sense and individual thinking to believe and obey authority. Stupid "conspiracy theorists," in reaction, renounce them to believe anything that, in some way, contradicts it. This often includes "following" yokel gurus, a new form of authority based on anti-authority! In short, we're back to square one. These aren't two opposites, just two different ways of addressing one's need to believe in an external authority.
The real alternative, the truly different approach, is to evaluate the information from time to time based on one's own direct personal experience and one's critical sense.
