On The Psychology Of The Conspiracy Denier

Non c’è un solo un complotto, ce ne sono tantissimo a tutti i livelli e pure spesso in conflitto fra loro. Ognuno nel suo.piccolo complotta per arrivare al successo, i politici in special modo, ma si potrebbe anche definire mettere in atto delle strategie. Sta di fatto che il potere mette chi ne ha in una posizione apicale che viene istintivamente difesa. Diceva uno, ‘il fascino del potere sta nel poterne abusare’. Io non credo affatto che ‘il complotto’ venga negato, credo che sia impossibile penetrarne i misteri, diramarne la trama e trovare una forza di pari peso da opporvi.

A brilliant argument , well written and persuasive.
All I would add is the individual tendency to seek and do evil. Most of us don’t, but those who crave money, power and attention, the status seekers and celebrity legacy showponies? They can easily convince themselves that righteousness starts when the last dissident is removed,or imprisoned. All monsters start with this perverted impulse , and their structures reward that.
Me? I happen to think that Jesus, Paul and the old testament prophets portray man exactly as he is. And giving him access to power and pyramidal scaffolding to swing his genitals from ,is where we are today
You state so much of it well. Thank you.

“Superstition is like a magnet, it pulls you in the direction of your belief.”

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Brilliant!

WoW!!!! Well written. I have said for many uears that rhat adults act like iverlt emotinal children. Very well written piece. THANK YOU. 💖🙏💖

Perhaps because perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded people don’t just let themselves be tempted into finger-pointing from a suggestion, and because they, unlike Mr. Foyle, realize that sociopaths are not just among those whose behavior is objectional.
And why does opposing that suggestive direction suddenly turns into an unfounded point of view? Does a point of view becomes unfounded if one finds it contrary to one’s own believes, even when one compiles that own believe from a sometimes extremely questionable amalgam of social media comments? Is one’s point of view unfounded when one expresses one’s doubts about the sometimes extremely dubious nature of that amalgam of social media comments? Clearly Mr. Foyle thinks so!
History does not catalogues the machinations of liars, thieves, bullies and narcissists and their devastating effects. History does much more than that, and the deliberately limiting fabrication of history to this utterly negative and highly disparaging view suggests that Mr.Tim Foyle is rather one of those whose behavior he seems to disapprove.

Despite countless examples of well-documented and accepted acts of organized group deceit throughout human history, in the modern vernacular ’Conspiracy Theory’, through clever propaganda, has been molded into a pejorative term to discredit any form of legitimate questioning of dubious official narratives.

So, no matter how many anomalies are unearthed and analyzed by various professionals about suspicious global or national events; grouping all discussion and topics into a discredited intellectual taxonomic group, labelled ‘Conspiracy Theorist’, allows deceivers, deniers and useful idiots to maintain a comfortable lie rather than allow exposure of a possible uncomfortable truth. And the masses can sigh a relief and maintain their false sense of security and belief in the system. Now, clearly some ‘conspiracy theories’ will not withstand the rigors of scrutiny but this should not imply that all theories by group association, do not. That would be like saying, I don’t have a bucket of carbon because it contains coal and diamonds.

Fortunately for mendacious authorities, most conspiracy theories have another Achilles heel: It is one thing realizing the official narrative is corrupt by unearthing obvious lies and deceptions, but it is quite another thing being able to definitively piece together and reveal the truth. This difficulty with burden of proof is utilised by deniers to reject conspiracy exists at all. But this is false logic: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In other words, the inability for a number of theorists to reach cohesive agreement on what took place is not a substantive defense for an official narrative which is clearly and provably false. For example, we know gravity exists but all manner of theories abound as to how or why… this lack of cohesion in opinion does not mean gravity does not exist, we just don’t fully understand it yet.

In this regard, it is far easier for a handful of corrupt power brokers to maintain one big deception, than it is for a large number of individuals to reach a consensus of opinion. Conspiracy analysis rarely arises out of some deranged madness but out of glaringly obvious anomalies, like 9/11 for example. And with a myriad of publicized corruption, globally, nationally and locally; in government, corporations and families, it seems incredulous to think that these human traits would not be utilised on a grander scale particularly in higher echelons where power and wealth are the currency of hierarchical ascent. I suggest researching the ‘Quigley Formula’ for those that are skeptical of how this might be achieved.

Anyway, surely the initial aim should be to reveal the occurrence of untruth. The term should be ‘Conspiracy Checker’ rather than ‘Conspiracy Theorist’, ie. has there been an obvious attempt to conceal truth – on the balance of available evidence… ‘YES’ or ‘NO’. For example, observing the development of narrative over last twelve months it is not difficult to garner a modicum of suspicion; false statistics, remedy misinformation, testing manipulation, censorship, arbitrary fact checking, dissent by medics, scientists, virologists, immunologists and lawyers warning that something is deeply wrong, etc. If one were to ‘Conspiracy Check’ this pandemic, a resounding ‘YES’ would flag up. What, why and how this has taken place, are all questions open to speculation and ‘theory’. But what is not too difficult to see, is that global deception is being openly conducted before our eyes. And this is not to say Covid-19 does not exist or that the disease is not deadly to some of us – that would be ridiculous. However the official data, modelling and response is obviously full of holes, and therefore has the hallmarks of conspiracy; as such it is absolutely worthy of scrutiny, question and inquiry.

Interestingly, it is totally arguable, that during the last twelve months, ironically, to believe the official global narrative you would have to be wearing a ‘tin foil hat’.

Just as you say the child trusts because ‘it could not survive otherwise’. That is still the motive, until one grows enough to accept ones helplessness in the face of the universe, ‘man proposes and god disposes’. We are all bound by time to die, that is the button that power trippers have learnt to press. That is the key trust to find, that mortality is OK.
The way out is not revolution as such, which just replaces one set of parasites with another, but by growing the awareness to accept mortality on ones own terms. Life is a gamble, trust is our first instinct, but it is not only in the mother, the family, teachers, early caregivers, important as they are. Any of them may fail sometimes, many times. Ultimately it must grow to be trust in life itself. Each day as it comes is that opportunity. Then it is life that has moved on, I have to catch up, be loose and natural when girlfriend goes or pet cat dies. Not blame the other boy for stealing her, nor her for being fickle. So now, dont say sociopaths are ruining life, you will never penetrate deep enough to find your own exploiter, your own ruthlessness, your own survivor at all costs. The sun shines equally for sociopaths as well, ice cream tastes as good, and we/they dont have all that anxious guilt of not being able to care enough to save anyone else than ourself… First find where you have mistakenly placed your trust, from where you expect to be saved, and undo those expectation. Accepting one is helpless now as as when a child sees other people are not saviours nor sociopathic monsters to placate or fight, nor are people weaker prey to manipulate. Life is like this, we have all these options within us, choose carefully, the currents are strong. We can only unseat the dominance of sociopathy by acknowledging it in ourselves and pulling up ones own roots. In any fight with ‘them’ on the outside we have accepted their power not to care. This lesson is as deep as undoing father christmas, that no one HAS to love you. Now if you trust life it is on your terms, perhaps as a gamble, that you choose to trust, not because existence must respond, but that you don’t choose the time nor reason for your coming and going.

Eloquently mirrors my own views. You don’t have to be a historian (although I studied history myself) to see sociopaths rising up the hierarchies to disastrous effect. History is littered with them. If they are recognised at all, they are ringfenced as part of that atypical piece of nazi history. I do think there is psycopathy as well as sociopathy at play – look out for the smirkers among our politicians and ‘experts’.

Brilliant article. Might even snap a few out of their stupor. If we can get them to read it in the first place, that is.

https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/12/on-the-psychology-of-the-conspiracy-denier/

The lie is that the world or our self is as we think – and rationalise or identify and protect.

While commending the article as a stepping stone in addressing our mind as the substratum of our perceptions and responses, I join in looking within and beneath appearances as an ongoing willingness.

Why is it that otherwise perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded people baulk at the suggestion that sociopaths are conspiring to manipulate and deceive them? And why will they defend this ill-founded position with such vehemence?

This states that people are not perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded, because they protect their mind from threat, under the belief IT protects or speaks and represents them, or their true interests.

I have considered our ‘thinking as being like our firstborn son – as our creation, and special to us. (This perspective has interesting inference for the Old Testament call to yield or sacrifice our ‘thinking’ or conflicted will, for a living truth that restores wholeness of being).

Who are you? If you keep asking as a means to release associations or things about you – will you arrive at your thought – like Descartes?”

‘I think therefore I am!’.

Consider the ‘Name of God’;
“I Am That I Am!”

I suggest that we are running an ‘i’ that is a derivative of derivatives such as to have delivered us to a Prodigal Wasteland (Nightmare).

The device by which thought SEEMS to hijack the mind and replicate itself is conflict and division that rules out wholeness to a dissociating split off sense of self. I had the image as I wrote of a phish taking the bait and running with it until it is ‘realed in’ (puns intended). All psyops or deceiving illusions share the function of illusion – which is to replace reality, This is a temporary capacity by which we take the time to live the experience it gives us.

In The Compleat Angler, the sport of nearly but NOT catching a fish after a long and protracted struggle led one of the two anglers to lament his loss, to which the other responded ‘how can you lose what you have never had?’.

Yet on the same basis how can we truly lose what we have and are to the wish to have something that we are NOT – except in concept of the struggle to regain what we thought was denied us, or we believe we have been deprived of?

“And WHO told you you were naked?” said the Lord to the self-conscious reflex of masking over a sense of lack and grievance given welcome and protection.

A mask is a defence and as a defence it attacks first. As open attack is soon found to bring limit and loss by retaliation, and so we learn to present the mask of compliance in bargains struck by which to seem to join in the mask of concern or virtue while keeping a backdoor of suspicion, judgement and distance by which to escape exposure to intimacy of a true meeting, and through which a hidden agenda operates opportunistically whether we own it or not.

A superficial exposure of the personality level of the human ego or self-construct may seem to confirm a sense of justification in lidding over and justifying denial and exclusion.
I could call it ‘otherism’ as the root of all the current ‘isms’ being wielded by the ‘woke’ to weaponise a masking virtue as ‘righteous hate!’. But it is fear attracting guilt, hate and projection as a tempt to get rid of it – or mitigate it so as to resume some sense of ‘normality’.

As long as we engage from the mask we identify in the mask and when time and mind is devoted to conflict or wills (conflicted will externalised), for so long are we trapped in a hell of our own making under the belief it can be reformed, remade, reset, as some attempt to correct the error with the same problem that makes it, while believing THIS TIME will be different. Depletion and exhaustion will in time dis-illusion, but the capacity to merely shift illusions and think to have reset to a capacity to resume business as normal, is in the capacity to forget or discard who we are and what we truly are, have and know, for self-illusions we protect as life itself – and therefore persist an ill-founded conviction by which Others and an othered world all conspire to deny and deprive us of the life we want.

And so perhaps the key is not to seek to change another’s thought from without, by a frontal critique by which to ‘correct’ their errors by leveraging conformity or compliance to something that would undermine and shame in loss of face or exposure to a sense of inadequacy – and hence meet a will to block or deny communication seen as threat.
The key must be to allow our own thought to be changed from within, such as to no longer project our sense of lack or grievance onto them, and instead extend the peace of a self acceptance as the conditions of a shared motivation for positive or integrative change.

Relationship never work, thrive or fulfil when we push or pull without extending a recognition and acceptance of another in their own right. And the fixation in ‘wrongness’ projected and perceived generates the system of control, as if conflict must be managed, milked and identified in, rather than healed.
The renewing of our mind is the Gift of our being; not the overlay of masking controls, enacted, normalised and given acceptance as power and protection – conferred or denied.

Birds of a feather, flock together. Resonance is the true power by which all coherence embodies and is held. All thought carries resonant qualities. There is a ‘feeling’ component to thoughts, including the dissociative thinking by which to deny any direct feeling to awareness, by running emotional conflicts to limit, or denying emotional expression.

Our freedom and capacity to evaluate our own thought, both inwardly as spiritual discernment and outwardly as empirical reality testing, is within our being. Not waiting on Permission from Others or circumstance. And so the attempt to leverage others and circumstance as if the THEN have the conditions for freedom is a device of diversion and delay in futility.

We are already the movement of being – as the qualities of awareness and attention in a rich and diverse experience that we lose all savour of, when locked into the image, model or systemic structure of control. The idea of resting the ‘mind’ to ground and centre our selves in presence lived is much more than ‘recharging the battery of a separate self sense’ so as to take its habits as an authoritative sense of self-will. But is an opportunity of renewal from a true Authority of being. How would you know this? Because truth is never coercive. Clearly I am not talking of a ‘defined truth’ but the quality of recognition and resonance by which you know that you are without any shadow of a doubt or division.

Can Prometheus steal such a light and give it to the world but in chains and torment?
What if we ‘run off’ with a corrupted copy, and be-live it?
The mind in error cannot correct itself by using others as a proxy. But can reverse the reversal and read the world as the revealing of mistakes that we are willing to own, address and bring to a true curiosity in desire for a better experience of self and world through which to meet and freely align and share. Living responsibility as freedom, is growing and strengthening it as our conscious experience. Defining freedom in terms and conditions, is a contract or recoil from Infinity. We haven’t actually defined Reality, so much as entered into a limited company of rules and regulations. What does it profit…?

http://willingness-to-listen.blogspot.co.uk/