The c/Conspiracies community seems to be in gradual decline over the years.
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It's hard to believe that anyone could get involved in conspiracy theory to any extent and then give it up, but there you have it.
My only theory is that fear finally takes over: they get exposed to so much material that generates fear and which their subconscious judges to be potentially true that, in order to relieve that anxiety, they find a reason to quit.
We all battle against that same phenomenon. Pretty much nothing in the study of conspiracy reveals good news. It is only the love of truth in a higher consciousness that can overcome it.
If we try our best to stick to the Truth, we do not have to take the sides or the party line being pushed onto us.
That hits on something that has become so clear to me lately as a fundamental mechanism of control.
Almost all of us define ourselves as a collection of attributes: Democrat, firefighter, consumer, American, Red Sox fan, Person of Color, whatever. We wear these "identifications" like little merit badges on a sash that we use to signal others. And there's no doubt we think of these as "merit" badges, because no one "shamefully confesses" they're really a minarchist.
"They" know this and the mechanism of control is attaching tiny little strings to these badges to pull us around. That is, They simply declare that as a "good" fill-in-the-blank, you "should" do-thus-and-so. If you don't or you disagree, you're bad and should ashamed of yourself. They magically bridge the is-ought distinction and no one ever seems to see any of this happening.
Every once in a while we see someone removing one of these merit badges and freeing themselves. The one we see frequently now is when a black person declares they're a Trump supporter. They're accused of being a race traitor, of course, but without that merit badge and that tiny string, that person's attitude becomes, "I couldn't give a fuck what you think."