A Theory About Conspiracy Theories
Sept. 28, 2020
>>>snip
More than 1 in 3 Americans believe that the Chinese government engineered the coronavirus as a weapon, and another third are convinced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has exaggerated the threat of Covid-19 to undermine President Trump.
...
In the most comprehensive analysis to date of people who are prone to conspiracy beliefs, a research team in Atlanta sketched out several personality profiles that appear to be distinct. One is familiar:
the injustice collector, impulsive and overconfident, who is eager to expose naïveté in everyone but him- or herself. Another is less so:
a more solitary, anxious figure, moody and detached, perhaps including many who are older and living alone. The analysis also found, at the extremes, an element of real pathology — of a “personality disorder,” in the jargon of psychiatry...
...— a pattern of thinking called “
psychoticism.”
Psychoticism
is a core feature of so-called schizo-typal personality disorder, characterized in part by “odd beliefs and magical thinking” and “paranoid ideation.” In the language of psychiatry, it is
a milder form of full-blown psychosis, the recurrent delusional state that characterizes schizophrenia. It’s a pattern of magical thinking that goes well beyond garden variety superstition and usually comes across socially as disjointed, uncanny or “off...”
<<<
(article continues)
He is confused. The thing about the reptilians, is, we're supposed to forgive them, to
love them, as they are really just another, if wayward, part of
The One. As are we all, including politicians and movie stars. Yes, we should unmask them, but they play an essential role in the eternal struggle between light and dark. They are yin to our yang, necessary and beloved, and only love can heal them. Trust that the universe knows what it is doing, and soon our understanding of the Truth will be complete.
The murder of innocent children only strengthens reptilians.
I'm serious. I read the book. Books. I never drank the kool-aid. It's nonsense, of course, IMO. But no less real for that.
