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I spoke to a man that was balls deep into alot of conspiracy stuff. Some of it seemed interesting but some of it went too far and didnt have any solid proof of validity. When I questioned one of his points he said "we must rid ourselves of all doubt"
So his primary aim in life is to become so fricking gullible that he'll believe any bullshit he hears?
Conspiracy theories all start from some vaguely plausible point - or at least a point that seems vaguely plausible to someone who has limited knowledge of the topic. But then they veer off into baseless nonsense, where refuting the claims requires proving a negative, or the only way the assertions could be proved wrong would be the use of a time machine.
I'm sure that a lot of conspiracy nuts have a fundamentally paranoid mindset: they're convinced that the only reason their life is pretty shit is because incredibly powerful, invisible forces are out to get them. Others want to believe that they have a special insight into the world that's beyond the comprehension of most people. And then there are those who desperately want to believe that everything happens for a reason; they can't accept that the universe is a place where all kinds of stuff - good and shitty - happens due to the working of the law of unintended consequences, or because of a long string of random events.
I agree there's alot of people like this but when you say they're all like this I guess it would just depend how you'd define a conspiracy theorist. I think some of them are right like with the Epstein stuff they were saying for years Bill Clinton was the flight logs to a known p3d0 island and everyone said they were conspiracy theorists. I think you should hear some of them out if they dont discredit themselves by saying crazy shit like "rid ourselves of all doubt". When he said that I just couldn't take it serious anymore.
It's undeniably true that rich, powerful people (most often people of the male persuasion) have always conspired amongst themselves to arrange the world in a way that benefits them. It doesn't logically follow that virtually everything significant that happens is the result of a conspiracy, but that's how conspiracy-minded people are inclined to view the world. Often they end up in the absurd position of asserting that the very absence of any evidence for something they believe to be true is proof that it is true because powerful forces have worked hard to conceal or destroy the evidence, while all evidence that contradicts their beliefs has to be faked simply because it doesn't confirm their beliefs.
This makes as much sense as claiming that the Bible has to be the inerrant word of God because the Bible says it is the inerrant word of God. Such circular reasoning is impervious to facts and logical argument. All that matters is belief.
I agree that those who claim to be the victim of a conspiracy should be listened to. Powerful people always have and always will abuse their power, and they should be held to account for that.
I'm much less interested in listening to anyone who claims that they possess special knowledge of vast conspiracies that would have to involve the total discretion of hundreds or even thousands of people. I'm not at all interested in hearing some obviously ignorant fruitcake explain some conspiracy theory that flies in the face of all the knowledge of the universe that has been painstakingly built up since the beginning of the scientific revolution almost five-hundred years ago.