Among those proclivities is the desire to stand out, if for no other reason than to have a better chance at attracting the best mates...
I write of people ignoring simple and plain truths in favor of embracing and peddling "secret knowledge" alternatives.
I write of people ignoring simple and plain truths in favor of embracing and peddling "secret knowledge" alternatives.
- This will include such as 9/11 and lunar landing truthers, but it goes way beyond conspiracy theorizing.
- Consider the phenomenon of the flat-earther...
Why would people do this? I'm going to call it "ignorance chic." If you want to stand out, if you want to present as a cool kid and "hipper than thou," if you want to feel special rather than just one of eight billion, and if you want to find an in-group acceptance, then running with some contrarian idea, no matter lack of evidence, and no matter overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
- The latest form of ignorance chic, and it's horrifying, is the denial of Hamas atrocities on 10/7...
- Ignorance chic is also a sufficient explanation for the continued embrace of Marxism by the young, no matter that it killed two hundred million people last century...
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