Conspiring Minds Want To Know 0
Mike Littwin of the Denver Post offers some theories about why conspiracy theories seem so popular amongst certain segments of the American populace. A nugget:
But what is true is that we understood exactly what the announcer meant. It was the ’50s and dissent was frowned upon. But even if you were a skeptic, you knew what the stakes were.
Now, there’s truth and there’s truth. This is, on balance, a good thing. We have more ways to get at the truth — and therefore more ways to understand it. But it’s not all good. If we doubt all our institutions — and the polls say we do — what do we share? If there’s a democratization of truth, it has to mean more than reading one article on climate science and thinking you’re qualified to deconstruct the work of a scientist who’s spent his entire life studying it.
