It's a real problem with the human mind. It's not necessarily true that we're good at just pattern recognition. It's that our brain thinks in narratives, no matter what the facts are. We just have to put things in narratives, or they become very difficult to comprehend or understand. If we don't have evidence for a narrative, we start inserting things that sound like it makes sense, and then we see the narrative as fact.
It's a real problem with the human mind. It's not necessarily true that we're good at just pattern recognition. It's that our brain thinks in narratives, no matter what the facts are. We just have to put things in narratives, or they become very difficult to comprehend or understand. If we don't have evidence for a narrative, we start inserting things that sound like it makes sense, and then we see the narrative as fact.
You kinda have to be trained to not do that.
Having been accused of this before, the Elders of Zion is a book, rather than people.