evilgenius wrote:What they really need is to get a dog, it will act like it loves them no matter what they think.
That's more profound than you realize. Psychoanalyze someone who is a CT nut and more often than not I think you'll find deep-seated trust issues that go all the way back to childhood. For instance, I haven't read Dave Mustaine's biography but I am pretty sure there's something in his past that led him to feel a profound lack of trust in others. This led him to have a persecution complex, get him in trouble with his bandmates, constantly write songs that are the musical equivalent of Alex Jones rants, become a Jesus Freak, etc...
He even has a song called TRUST.Humans are social creatures and we rely upon an inner barometer known as TRUST to determine the difference between friend and foe and fight vs. flight. Just like any other biological mechanism, it's imperfect. The best you can do is become aware of this.
Civilization as we know it can not exist without some minimum amount of trust. If it gets to the point where nobody trusts anyone you have Mad Max, Children Of Men, etc...
CT people tend to confuse lack of "trust" with "enlightenment". If you accuse someone or an institution of something that isn't true what you do is erode this trust which tears away at the pillars of civilization itself. It is not a liberating force but rather a destructive force.
The only way to counter this is through rationality. But humans have trouble doing that.
evilgenius wrote:I love how it concretely lays out people's fears. But I don't confuse fear with science.
This site is mostly a psychological case-study.
I remember back in the old days when I used to have an account at Life After the Oil Crash where opinions were even more extreme. The denizens here are sort of the stale leftovers of that demographic.