In an attempt to further my understanding of what drives those who believe in conspiracies, I'm on episode 2 of the Peacock documentary. It's hard to watch. The paranoia and anger exhibited by believers is breathtaking.
Shadowland - Documentary in The Atlantic and series on Peacock
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 13, 2022 2:14 AM |
No one else is reading/watching? I feel like I'm living in another dimension as these conspiracy whackjobs rollout their brand of crazy.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 30, 2022 11:03 PM |
Just finished the series. Had to watch episodes a few days apart because I can't endure a steady stream of truly disturbing behavior. I need time to process this brand of crazy.
They take bits and pieces of information that has some basis in fact (rich people control others to do their bidding) and blow it into utter madness (satanists, adenochrome, nanobots).
It also disturbs me that many of the folks only point to Democrats as the harbingers of doom when most bad actor corporations shell out big money to Republicans. The degree of cognitive dissonance would cause my head to explode.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 6, 2022 4:51 PM |
I watched it to try to understand what happened to my sister, who I stopped speaking to about four years ago. No one in my family can stomach her pretentious Q-style bullshit, but I'm the only one who got so disgusted I cut her off. It did give me some sense of why she went that way. Apparently these people have a need to believe they're smarter that the average bear and know things ordinary people can't understand, and to hang out with others of their kind.
It was repulsive and enlightening at the same time.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 13, 2022 2:14 AM |