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In an early episode of this podcast, I remember mentioning that, thanks to the internet, we have never been closer together and yet never been so far part. At the time, I was making a comment on loneliness. People who had active online lives, but had been driven further away from face to face relationships.
I sometimes forget that this podcast was started during the pandemic. That strange time seems so unreal and far away now. Certainly at the time, I had no idea how the isolation was effecting some people. Changing who they were, and how they think.
Believing in conspiracies used to be different. People might believe in a governmental cover-up, believe that certain events in history had been manipulated by sinister forces. It’s true that believing in one conspiracy makes you more likely to believe in other conspiracies, but conspiracists were less likely to believe in all of them at once.
Today, conspiracies are more like an addictive substance. People start off curious, get hooked, get pulled in. And then it’s hard to stop.
It drives a wedge between you and others. It’s difficult to relate to people whose beliefs become increasingly strange and uncreditable. It’s hard not to be critical of those beliefs, which seem so obviously wrong, and are yet held so strongly.
Rejected by those close to them, the conspiratorial find new friends and new community. They find their own news sources and online platforms. And soon they’re living parallel lives. Living amongst us, but not sharing the same reality.
Conspiracy theorists are not ghosts. But many have passed over into a mirror world, a strange reflection of the reality the rest of us live in. And many of those who pass over, never come back.
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