Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories? 

Makes sense

Most conspiracy theories are based on the idea that a government could run FEMA death camps or plant a camera on every sparrow if they so wanted to without someone speaking out. When in all reality, they could barely run a FEMA camp program if they tried and someone would leak knowledge of it(probably on accident). The FEMA death camp theory is a perfect example of how a conspiracy theory forms. The theory started when someone posted a photo of white train cars with slats on the side, vaguely reminiscent of a cattle car. They surmised that these must be for people (thanks to the air slats) and that they were putting god loving Patriots into death camps in order to kill all the gun toting free thinkers to leave a more easier to control population. The white train cars in question are for transporting automobiles, and the air slats are so that whoever drives the automobile into the train car doesn't die from lack of ventilation. It takes literally zero evidence to create a conspiracy theory. South Park hit the nail on the head.

that's literally what we did in the cold war, we talked about starwars defense systems, going to the moon, building super massive super colliders, and all sorts of things that we tried to get Russia to compete with in an attempt to outspend them and dismantle their stability. we did. but the national debt got out of control here and... well thank goodness we don't have any budget issues to this day.

No doubt

In my opinion the Chinese weather balloon that was sent to spy on America is the funniest

You mean “it’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled”. Mark Twain.

@@earthsmoke9450 Tomato tamato.

This, but unironically. When the facts challenge power, the only option is becomes to convince us that they're fake.

I'm skeptical until a few months later when they're proven true

Lizards People is a allegory Becaus the are Cold Blooded aka ruthless killers Lizards also have Cold Blood

Lizard people. As if. Everybody knowsssss they are sssssssnake people.🙂 Before you ssssssay , snakes are lizardsss. That's what the snake people want you to think.😊😊😊😊😊

@@TheMysteryDriver Most of them aren't proven true because they're insane. Did you even watch the video?

A conspiracy theory that's proven is simply called a conspiracy.

Did Big Conspiracy pay you to say this? I enjoy grassroots conspiracies, not the artificial ones THEY are feeding you

Yep, it's page one of the CIA/Mossad handbook. Create nonsense like flat earth and lizard people, to discredit the stuff that is true.

I whole hearted believe Q anon stuff was signal boosted by media to make the Epstein business seem more farfetched by association. Sure, Epstein was real and real important people went to his island, but the crazy Q people who believe the vaccine kills you and that the rich eat babies also believe it, so, y'know.

Well pushing the term conspiracy theory was to lump it all together and muddy the waters

State of the art algorithms at their finest...

Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

Conform better.

Why I don't believe people when people say AI will destroy us or take over the world. Maybe by mistake. AI can't even tell when a video is legit about why conspiracy theories are bad vs actual conspiracy theory.

My conspiracy theory is that you knew this would happen and would be the perfect way to promote your patreon.

Don't forget you still have to pay your taxes to fund your warmogering in Ukraine, Palestine, Syria and China. Now get back to work and carry on thinking about how dangerous conspiracy theorists are.

Your a deep thinker, you must be a teacher or scientist.

It just means you are probably wrong, even if you could be right

That joke isn’t tired AT ALL.

Watch out for that Chinese weather balloon. And don't forget Russia is out to get you!

Im inside of youre walls

That’s exactly what they want you to think.

I'm still waiting for the gov to look out for my interests. Let me know when that actually happens.

@@TheMysteryDriver well i got a functioning healthcare system. Reliable infrastructure such as roads sewage and fire departments. So im good.

Does an ant trust the hive? I think the dynamic is less personal and more robotic. Humans, being some of the largest organisms on the planet, don't gel well with the essentially insectoid superorganism structure they inhabit. A part of us hates it hates it hates it, mammals are territorial creatures, they only need 15-20 people and a lot of room to themselves. And then you take into the account that humans inhabit different hives that compete with each other, with thermal, nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons in their arsenal. That's a long way down from our humble roots being ape-like creatures swinging in air, hopping from branch to branch.

@@varvarvarvarvarvar thee unconscious collective mind of humanity is against us.

@@MATT-2042 There's a name for this mind, it's the freaking nanomachine of DNA. We share DNA with ants and the hive must be a typical design for a social superorganism? Will we become more like bees or will we fight our ground back and become more like bears but in space? Food for thought. Btw, Nabokov made a note that animals that specialize on eating social insects are _very_ freaking odd. The same appears to be true for humans who pray on masses of average people. Odd ducks with their _lodges_ and stuff.

The problem is that wackos with idiotic beliefs get lumped in with people who believe that conspiracies exist. Like, Flat Earthers, Creationists, anti-vaxxers, etc., are psychos with idiotic beliefs. Believing that oil companies are colluding to raise gas prices and stymie the implementation of green energy is just the cynicism of experience.

Truth 😂

Not really, most of the time. Actual corrupt things that happen tend to just bore people, usually. You have to put in something spicy like the military, aliens, or erm, Jews to get folks really swivelling their eyes and shrieking.

Yep - great point!

Thank you.

I loved that book! It’s been so long that I don’t remember the details, but they started by getting food pellets for doing simple, logical things, then the unspoken requirements got harder and harder. Eventually every member of the group had to do a different, nonsensical thing at the same time to get the machine to dispense any pellets. Meanwhile, they got fewer and fewer pellets, and the hunger started doing things to their minds.

I was looking for this comment. Well done! :)

Is it a cargo cult or is it pavlovian conditioning? Can something really be considered a cargo cult if it is entirely irrational but it actually results in the outcome that you want?

That feeling is understandable, it's just you being an advanced human. If you really seek enlightenment you can achieve that and so much more by joining the Illuminatus Brotherhood. I know it sounds mythos, but there are ways to get in.

hi, is it even possible to join? i always thought it's meant for certain people in the upper class.

Well it is, there are ways you can actually get in. It's not just open to everyone, but then you can always try to know better and inquire whether or not you are eligle. anyways, you can inquire into Anthony Rogers Szymon online, will probably help you understand better.

Fascinating. Thanks so much for the reference, I just looked him up and left him a message already.

lmao

Seriously. People who think that covid was manufactured in a biolab in China think they're somehow better or more serious than people who think the world is flat.

That's just what the pigeon wanted Skinner to think. The consensus view of the scientific community today is that the pigeons successful conspired to contaminate BF's data but he rejected that conclusion because he wasn't aware of the secret power of the Columbia livia community.

Pavlov's dog.

Well, this changes everything...

Indeed the jig is up. @@xyaeiounn

Always hide in plain sight. I once made a joke about wearing my bosses knickers to the guys at work. It made me laugh because little did they know....

lol @@xyaeiounn

Yeah, he kind of pinched it from Adam Curtis but I'm sure even Georg would admit, it's better than watching 30 minutes of Georg. Excellent work Georg. Thanks as always.

You won't, because they're made up.

It's from the TV Show Ray Donovan.

My favorite!

“It doesn’t matter which of us you vote for. Either way, your planet is doomed”

A refreshingly frank response there from senator Zero Ciero!

Or until they subvert an entire political party.

Or until they wake the dumb masses up from their mass brainwashing

I've pointed this out before. Even though I really like all of his stuff, I really love when he uses old-timey footage to explain or to set the tone.

Psychology studies and concepts in general have a million things wrong with them.

Even if 'random' could be not the best word to describe the paintings, the fact there are statistical differences on how we perceive them means they are different. If you don't the word 'random', maybe we could use 'unstructured', 'noisy', 'chaotic', or 'whimsical'.

Have you ever seen Jackson Pollock actually painting? While his intent might not have been random, the technique he used most certainly led to random results. Its a bit like saying that the buckshot holes in a road sign aren't random because someone aimed the shotgun.

@@GloomDept Imagine two paintings: one done by Leonardo da Vinci, and another one by Pollock. Both of them have a out-of-place (that is, it wasn't what the artist intended) brushstroke. In which painting would that error be most obvious? Randomness, In the physical sense of the word, is not a binary property. It exists in a continuum. In that sense Pollock's paintings contain more randomness. The colloquial use of the word 'random' (as opposed to 'deliberate', instead of 'structured') maybe the culprint here

@@GloomDept I'm equating to phsycal randomness, because that what it is. I'm not making value judgements: i'm not saying randomness is bad, or that one artist is better than the other one. Randomness has a precise meaning in physics, that links entropy and information theory. There are more macrostates of brushstrokes on a canvas that correspond to Pollock's paintings than to a Da Vinci's paintings, and that's equivalent to say that Pollock's work has more entropy (and information) than Da Vinci's work, and that's equivalent to say Pollock's paintings have more objective randomness (that is not the subjective randomness of intention). Of course, Da Vinci's paintings have less entropy because he was more limited because realism. But i'm not making any unfair comparison because i'm not judging the aesthetic value or merit of those paintings. I'm just evaluating the information put on display. If you converted a Da Vinci's painting into a digital picture and compressed it, the result would be smaller than if you do the same with a Pollock's painting.

Because he's a hypocrite

Actually he looked at a tiny spectrum. He made virtually no mention of the conspiracies from governments such as the Assad gassing his own people, Russian election interference, Chinese weather balloon, Gulf of Tonkin etc etc. He just listed a load of trivial bizarre ideas that hardly anyone actually believes and that cause no harm, whilst ignoring endemic corruption.

What the hell do you think the news media has been doing for the last one hundred years?

​@@yerabbit6333MK Ultra

@@yerabbit6333 🤣🤣 seriously?

A very favorite fact of people who promote both credible and incredible political corruption claims is that the FBI and CIA invented and popularized the term conspiracy theory during the Warren Commission as a pr move. There's a lovely memo about it.

So, you're saying the conspiracies are real, but the theories aren't accurate.

No, a conspiracy theory is a specific _type_ of claim about a specific _type_ of corruption or criminal behaviour. "Conspiracy theory" is a sociological technical term with an accepted definition. Not every hypothesis-that-there-is-a-conspiracy is a capital-C Conspiracy Theory.

Cool story bro Still waiting on evidence the election was stolen

​@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs let me guess, you conveniently decide which is which, so you can selectively dismiss arguments.

Seems to whom? Told by who?

Nothing at all? Not only is that demonstratably false but geez, imagine going through life as an unironic contrarian to everything, you'd be absolutely insufferable to be around. It's just not healthy.

Right. Tell someone about Operation Northwoods or Operation Mockingbird and people will look at you like you're crazy but the American Gov have admitted to these. Not to mention MK Ultra.

NASA fund the flat earth society

That's the trick tho. Oh you talk about MK Ultra? YOU MUST THINK THE UNIVERSE IS ON A TURTLE

@@darkcoeficient What do you mean? Of course it's on a Turtle! How else whould it move through the turtleverse?

@@lootwigvanwegen easy! Turtle on Turtle action!

And worst of all the crazies do it for free - even in the comment section of this video without realising what they're doing. Its tragicomic really.

The real ones are discovered by proper investigation.

@@juanausensi499 but still get discard as crazy ramblings. Which is why the actual crazy shit is given all the attention. That's the point I was making.

@@SPTX. You can't discard a conspiracy theory as crazy ramblings if sensible evidence is provided.

@@juanausensi499 Why not? Seeing the world we live in, it appears to me that evidence is irrelevant.

Can't control? I always see them trying to exert control, albeit in delusional ways like Borax baths.

Don't people also derive control by knowing that things are the way they are and there is nothing more to the story?

@@charlescumming9019 Absolutely, I was just considering the contradiction in how some conspiracy theorists operate, I'm certainly not claiming that that's the only way people try to maintain control of their realities

Reality isn't chaos. Reality is rich and powerful people doing what's best for rich and powerful people. Posted it early but I think George Carlin had this figured out 100%. There's no grand conspiracies, just wealthy and powerful vultures who will always choose to do what's best for wealthy and powerful vultures.

At least for a certain type of person

They don't want you to know that one man with a gun really can make a difference

Except expertise exists. The system to recognize it is imperfect, but vastly better than what you see among people who have decided none of the systems for certifying expertise work. This is a side effect of demagoguery. When people are convinced to accept nonsense as truth, then learn they’ve been fed nonsense, they don’t return to the systems that worked for them until the demagogue came along. They slump into a state of, “What is truth, anyways? Who can tell what’s real? It could all be real. None of it could be real.” Then they fall for any BS that appeals to their emotions, and everything slides downhill for a generation or two.

@@mrjones2721 You have never studied epistemics? I think that you don't understand the issue is that experts exist and we do rely on other people's specializations for knowledge and at some point when that trust is broken- We don't trust "experts"- Science becomes scientism. And what of all the experts who believe inaccurate things which exist outside of thier area of expertise? That's a fundamental issue with people being required to trust people who have highly specialized knowledge, break the trust and fail to be accurate- and it is entirely unsurprising when people choose the comfort of a demagogue. The political inferrance and the common sense wisdom don't qualify your perspective as elegantly as you intended, it's actually offensive.

@@WhatdidtheCountessdo Soooo you and I agree. I’m not sure what your beef is.

@@mrjones2721 Epistemically, there are two kinds of knowledge - second hand and first hand knowledge. All second hand knowledge is based on trust of the interlocuter. I can be extremely well educated and considered competent in my specialization and that will not make me qualified to accurately gage anything outside of that locus. This is a problem when the issue is reduced to how well someone is educated, or simply leaning on the idea of expertise without any context. If I say I know gravity exists- that's technically a lie- I don't and even if I were a physicist I would have to take a lot of space here writing about how gravity is presumed and not proven but there's a massive gap between that accurate statement and how as a physical being I instinctively want to say I feel gravity and am experiencing it. Aka most "knowledge" is contextual and is deeply social. If everyone in my local town decided while I was in a coma that gravity is entirely an incorrect concept- It would be entirely arbitrary to me to simply agree to that new framework for physics- and I would until I left my town and found out that beyond my immediate local community everyone else still believed in gravity. My bug a boo is that intelligent well educated people can believe incredible things like the Austro-Hungarian empire should be won back at the cost of genocide, but everyone ignores those guys and thinks that if this one counterintelligence officer had gotten into Art School WW2 wouldn't have happened. Very smart specialized people are no less susceptible to joining cults and I see the mistake made rhetorically over and over to claim the ignorance of working class people is why a bad person was elected or people do not understand how to practice safety in a pandemic, and it just gives those with a growing sense of persecution fuel, doesn't hold the experts accountable for why they are no longer held as credible.

@@GloomDept Please refer back to the definition of the technical term "conspiracy theory" given in the video. I am specifically talking about capital-C Conspiracy Theories. Not simply any hypothesis about the existence of a conspiracy. Capital-C Conspiracy Theories employ a specific kind of narrative that's _intrinsically, by its nature and structure_ worthless at actually explaining reality. That's why they aren't a legitimate point of view.

@@Eet_MiaBecause Deutschebank was corrupt as fck, and some agents were more corrupt than others. Although I’d like citations on their having the same agent, because that’s the kind of detail conspiracy theorists add to stories.

@@Eet_Mia Oh dear. Was my explanation too commonsense?

@@Eet_Mia Do you have something that’s not a video? I like having facts laid out in a way I can read at my own pace, not wait for the narrator to get around to telling me.

People seem to generally have a hard time being mindful of, recognizing, and acknowledging just how flawed their personal perception of a situation can be. They also generally don't want to accept that they might've been tricked or deceived into taking on particular world views.

Well yeah we're pigeons

@@smugmode to be clear, i see a lot of data from web/app usage. i interview people for user testing. its humans and pigeons

@@donnydogpiss4533 agreed. I think. i think this extends to general life too (not conspiracy theories, but on a more basic level, how you pick between one thing and another). it’s less that people are being tricked and more that the way you make decisions is a combination of many factors and the individual in the middle is only a small part of that. (i have seen a lot data from marketing/advertising, it’s remarkable how many people were reel off the tagline of an advert and claimed that it’s an idea they came up with themselves for example)

Well documented events in history are reasons why we should believe the earth is flat?

@@kieranhurst8543 I never said the Earth is flat. What I was insinuating was that our government has lied to us and has perpetrated some pretty evil actions against the populace. Giving black people syphilis and telling them that they just have bad blood is evil. Wanting to kill Americans in a false flag to justify going to war with Cuba is evil. Actively controlling the narratives in the media is evil. Working with Nazis is evil. We don't even know all the crazy evil shit that went down with MK Ultra because the records were destroyed for national security. So can you show me a point in time were the government stopped lying and stopped being evil? The same shit is most likely still going on.

​​@@kyledutton6550you'll hate the government right up until someone you like is in power And then when someone you don't like is in power, you'll go straight back to hating them

All good ones.

Also one of Kennedy's speech before he was killed warned people about a shadow government but I guess that didn't happened jk

I'm sorry but did you just mansplain conspiracy theories to me sir? The nerve of people.

Like China sending a weather balloon over to spy on America or Russia buying an election. Just how dim do you have to be?

Amateur! I have a conspiratorial law about conspiracy explanations about conspiracy hypothesis about conspiracy tehories. But they never allow me to post it here.

What, specifically, are you referring to?

@@hastekulvaati9681 for the book 1984 can be seen as the direction we are going towards, what with all the Orwellien double-speak, newspeak, mass surveillance, memoryholing of the past, mass servalience, removal or freedoms, mass brainwashing and general propaganda. Orwel called it.

@@lemdixon01 Right, so you're saying Orwell wrote a dystopian novel whose themes you find prophetic. How does that make him a "conspiracy theorist" though?

@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs because the things which occurred in the novel involved intention to conspire whether an open conspiracy or otherwise if propaganda disguised the intent and the fact that these things in the novel which are coming true would suggest the same intention of leaders in the non fictional real world. Orwell had no concrete evidence so he had just theories that the ruling class would conspire in the way outlined in the book. He achieved this with something called intuition, which is something that a normie, NPC aka one of the sheeple would not posses or suppress or mistake for instinct.

Yeah end times... And that they often believe there's a super intelligent devil at large who's always trying to trick them but also leaves lots of cryptic clues in plain sight. I guess if you bring enough people up in that sort of environment a lot of them are going to be primed to see hidden conspiracies everywhere when they're adult.

@@Eet_MiaWhere is the kernel of truth in the theory that Hillary Clinton’s campaign wasn’t ordering pizzas to feed volunteers, it was ordering children for the campaign-runners to have sex with? And yes, most people who go down the rabbit hole do believe what they say they believe.

@@Eet_Mia That is usually how deception works though. Usually some truth sprinkled in the tsunami of disinformation. There are probably some conspiracy theories that are true Im definitely open to that. But it's pointless jumping to conclusions and putting together dots that aren't there before any real evidence gets you there.

​@@mrjones2721pizza gate had literally hundreds of pieces of evidence. Your lack of research is not an argument or refutation.

Its a conspiracy

you know, mainstream narrative governs all, or else you'll be silenced. or some conspiracy theory like that

Georg gives the Iraq WMD situation as an example of an actual conspiracy, contrasting it against a 9/11 theory.

@@chronoplague 9/11 the coincidence theorists dream. From indestructable passports, building 7, all cctv cameras not working at the Pentagon and a statewide mock terrorist hijacking exercise happening on the exact same day. All a series of terrible coincidences ofcourse.

⁠@@JS-oh2dpwell said, WMD conspiracy was a thing proven true and doesn’t need to tie into the twin towers falling or any other theory for it to be true. The definition used for conspiracy theory is the problem.

​@@chronoplague9/11 was clearly an inside job. Runs the gamut of allowed to happen to made it happen.

haven't seen any come true.

@@deehlgrm9379 That is on you.

How did you feel about the majority of your family members that believed Saddam had nuclear weapons? Or the ones that believe China used a weather balloon to spy on them. Or that Russia are influencing their elections. Do you think that they are mentally ill, brainwashed, low IQ people worthy of your sympathy - or do you give them a free pass because they believe the same false stories that you did?

Yeah I came to this channel from the video about Teflon, that video also proved that the government and corporations conspired to hide the truth. Georg is a boomer trapped in a younger body.

The american opioid epidemic is not a conspiracy, its just white collar crime. Like industries using asbestos even years after it was proven to cause cancer, or the soda industry constantly lobbying to make people think that fat is bad for their health while in reality its sugar. Its just crime disguised in business interests.

Watching George turn into controlled opposition

This isn't the real Georg. He was replaced by an android.

In the video, Georg did describe the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theory.