The Root of the CT Mentality

[Jontg]

I have never seen a more perfect explanation of how a conspiracy theorist's world works than this article (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DyingLikeAnimals). They're the main characters of their own little drama, and everyone else is one of these one-dimensional stock characters.

[Arthur Denton]

Reason to live, reason to worry, doubting the established authority.

[dudalb]

I wish I had a nickle for every time I have heard a Truther reference "THe Matrix" films like they were a guide on How TO Fight The Man. "Take The Red Pill,man,Take the Red Pilll" is a favorite meme among them.
They don't exist in a real world, but a make believe world where they are all Neo.

[Jontg]

Exactly--it's people like that that ruined the whole trilogy. So many people didn't get what was going on in the original that the Wachowskis' religious metaphor dispenser blew a valve.

[Inertia]

This thread doesnt make sense. And yes no smily faces this time. :p

[JihadJane]

Yes, the anti-CT mentality gives no comfort. Definitely not for pre-programmed pack animals.

ETA: link to my own short-lived thread on the topic:

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=124425

[Kthulhut Fhtagn]

Yes, the anti-CT mentality gives no comfort. Definitely not for pre-programmed pack animals.

ETA: link to my own short-lived thread on the topic:

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=124425


Someone's out of ideas.
Who?

You.

[JihadJane]

You.

I get mod warnings when I say things like that but congratulations on your impressive detective skills.

[Jontg]

So do I. Congratulations on being living proof that JREF has no bias against CTs.

[dudalb]

Exactly--it's people like that that ruined the whole trilogy. So many people didn't get what was going on in the original that the Wachowskis' religious metaphor dispenser blew a valve.

I think it is more a case that the Warchowski's decided to cater to the hard core Matrix Fans, and the sense of fun the first had went right out the window, drowned in a sea of High School Creative Writing class symbolism.

[Kthulhut Fhtagn]

I get mod warnings when I say things like that but congratulations on your impressive detective skills.

I get mod warnings all the time for saying things like that. Sometimes it needs to be said though.

[devnull]

I think CT mentality is rooted in the same nonsense as religious belief.

People, especially dumb people, want to be *right* about something. Ego demands it. It's even better when you are *right* about something that everyone else was wrong about - then you're extra-special.

When people lack the mental capacity to actually be *right* about something, they make crap up. It doesnt matter if they actually are right, just as long as they cant be proven wrong. Its a cheap way of having your ego stroked, without having to do the hard work.

[TjW]

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It doesnt matter if they actually are right, just as long as they cant be proven wrong. Its a cheap way of having your ego stroked, without having to do the hard work.

I'd put a different spin on it: it's not so much whether they're right or wrong, so much as that they're different. That they are not one of the sheep.

So in interpreting facts, they must come up with a different conclusion than the obvious one. This, in their mind, shows how superior they are.

It also explains why they're so often wrong.

[Kittyclaws]

They didn't watch enough Mr. Roger's Neighborhood when they were kids. They don't know how special they already are. :xwink