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Is there a single 'official narrative' that you believe over any "mainstream" conspiracy theory (ie: no, you don't get to bring out Flat Earth)?
How is it that every single event that has a conspiracy theory tied to it, the conspiracy theory is always pretty much identical in belief amongst all conspiracy theorists? How is that different from any "existing conclusion"? Every single mass shooting is literally called a 'false flag' before a single name is released, is it not?
who said anything about conspiracy theories? I'm talking about critical thinking.
in my view, critical thinking is the act of thinking intently about a subject and questioning it.
the Cambridge dictionary defines critical thinking as "the process of thinking carefully about a subject or idea, without allowing feelings or opinions to affect you"
Merriam-Webster defines critical thinking as "the act or practice of thinking critically (as by applying reason and questioning assumptions) in order to solve problems, evaluate information, discern biases, etc"
The exchange posted here is essentially saying that proposing conclusions that differ from the mainstream is a "rejection of critical thinking", which is patently untrue. Blindly accepting or rejecting any conclusion wholesale, true or false, is a rejection of critical thinking.
I agree with you but I also think there's a lot unsaid in what is just a short tweet and since they brought up moon landing hoaxers I am assuming they are coming from where I am.
Yes, conspiracies exist, but it's obviously a red flag that people who fall for conspiracy theories typically believe pretty much all conspiracy theories.
Moon landing hoax is one of the most intellectually void positions in the conspiracy world (Pentagon Missile Theory is by far #1... Well it was until "SPAES LAZORS AND BLOO ROOFS") and it's fascinating how (as I detailed in another post here) that they do things like cite the Van Allen belts as a reason we can't get to the moon yet literally the only reason they think they know about the belts is because the very agencies tasked with dealing with them are also the only source for their existence.
I know a shit ton about most all conspiracy theories and I reject most of them upon review, and a big part of that is because of "one level deep thinking".
Like if you find a spent 9mm case on the street next to a dark stain... The conspiracy mindset is to say "someone was murdered!" and cling to it. Well okay, did anyone test the stain to see if it's blood or oil? How long was that brass lying there? Was there a camera aimed at that spot and if so did anyone try to get the footage?
That's critical thinking and all I ever see from the CT crowd is they just repeat shit from Bitchute videos, videos that are carefully created to sell a narrative.
In fact conspiracy material is usually so engineered and so poorly sourced, if there's one conspiracy theory I believe, it's that 90% of conspiracy content is inorganic, potentially government produced propaganda.
If you know about MKULTRA, Mockingbird, psyops, etc. there's good reason to believe this shit is seeded intentionally to manipulate a demographic who the government likely feels is a threat (anti-government gun-owning conservatives). None of this conspiracy shit targets the left and nobody ever asks why... Conspiracy Theory™ has successfully made hundreds of thousands of dissidents functionally convinced that the government is essentially a god with borderline supernatural omnipotent power to execute any plan and carry out any evil without ever once slipping up.
And if you're mad at a god, what can you actually do? Nothing, really... So the CT crowd just imprisons themselves online in a way that discredits themselves, they do nothing but complain, yet keep paying taxes and never resist because "muh feds".
Of all the conspiracies they ponder, what I just wrote has never been one. Which is strange to say the least.
bruh, you're reading way too much into a 2-sentence tweet. My point is that he fundamentally misrepresents what critical thinking is. I have nothing to say about the mirror of certain conspiracy theories because they are not relevant here.