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*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: Right Wing Conspiracies

Guerrilla History

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The Psychology of Conspiratorial Thinking

Right wing ideology is tied to a gap between how they think about things rightat their sort of a priori commitments, and how things actually are. The further away reality gets from the right wings idea of reality, the more prone they are to falling in to conspiracy theories. Having a terrible, shiddy understanding of a situation is psychologically more coherent and cohesive than not having one at all. And maybe that leads quite nicely into what henry might say about psychology.

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