A lot of people are caught in a cognitive dissonance.
Obviously no one likes being told they’re ignorant comparative to someone else, but not everyone has the mental fortitude to break out of their established routine so they come here and complain about people who ‘have a superior attitude’ or whatever, when really it just boils down to the fact that people are unwilling to change and learn something new. On the flipside, people like me have no real sanity to speak of, and can pivot mentally on a dime because of extensive practice at doing so. Everyone has their talents and proclivities, and one might argue that using google is just hard for some people.
It’s really quite something to watch, too. Like for example imagine you spent several months of your life researching how to play poker, and then you sit down to talk to someone about poker and it’s clear they’ve played like once for 20 minutes, 20 years ago, and that is the extent of their experience - but they don’t want to view themselves as someone who isn’t good at poker, so in response to every actual fact you know, they respond with an emotional outburst about how (fundamentally) they are smarter than you, and it doesn’t matter what you read, they know why it’s wrong because the problem is with you as a person.
Why do so many conspiracy theorists look down on the masses? Because like I said, almost every person who is still asleep/normal have a reactionary/instinctual response to assume there is a mental defect with the conspiracy theorist. Almost every time. I have ever tested this out with super regular/innocuous stuff, and (some select really dumb) people will deny it just because it’s me saying it. That was an interesting research project… And of course this comes back to the whole key of brainwashing, which is to send people so far down a path that even if they figure out where they are, their emotions will bind their eyes forward, refusing to let them get a good look at where they have just come from.
That is what this all comes down to, is emotional control/mastery.
it’s extremely hard for some side to talk to the other, even about the most basic things, where you try as best you can to keep your cool. It’s really hard. Once you step outside of the peer reviewed system where people can’t just put their hand out to some authority to decide one way or the other for important things, these discussions turn into the most aggressively juvenile content you’ll ever see on a forum full of adults. I kid you not. If you want instant immaturity talk conspiracy with mainstream people, or vice verse. Most conspiracy theorists are just as bad for it. The person who doesn’t know anything gets super pissy, and the person who has spent (maybe too) much time doing the research is met with such a lacuna in the content that they invariably just sum it up with ‘You need to learn more before this can even proceed anywhere’ which is always taken by the other person as yet another direct threat to their intelligence.
And a round and a round we go. It’s really quite brilliant, actually.
For 9/11 for example, they obvioulsy made it so that it’s so obvious to some people that it hurts, on purpose, instead of trying their best to make it look completely real. They know obviously a certain percentage of people will just accept whatever without question, but the free thinkers will have such a hard time dealing with the overt obviousness of it that it invariably leads to insane discussions where the group that just accepts anything is pushed further and further into their position out of spite for the other group who is like ‘What the fuck, this is easy sauce.’ If you don’t believe me, ask yourself why there it’s so polarized. This isn’t like JFK. At this point, even like 10 years later, you either think it was muslims with box cutters, or you know the entire story because you’ve done the research. There is no grey area group, I think because it was planned that way. Looking back knowing what I know, what is how I would plan it. For sure.