Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Group think, conspiracy theories and the truth

There are those who think that if you come to a different conclusion about an historical event than that promoted by governments, mainstream media, giant internet companies, and other mainstream institutions that means you are a conspiracy theorist.

They use this title because they have been brainwashed to apply it to anyone with divergent thinking from the norm.

While some people may be interested in unproven theories, others of us are just interested in discovering the truth.

This truth is often discovered by listening to people with first-hand knowledge of the event in question.

If listening to such folks results in believing differently than that which is promoted by mainstream society that does not make a person a conspiracy theorist, it just makes them a person with a different historical belief.

There is no crime in this and it doesn't make them an enemy of society, it just makes them someone who's willing to stand alone in their beliefs, rather than belonging to some kind of group think.

Although divergent thinking is strongly discouraged by certain gatekeepers of mainstream beliefs that doesn't make it wrong, it just means that certain groups are threatened by alternative beliefs to those they promote, especially when these alternative views are widely held.

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