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Is Conspiratorial Thinking or Belief in Immediacy?

I think the belief that the most trustworthy knowledge is immediate is it's correlate in an utter paranoia about every other kind of, you know, position that's being articulated. And so I think those two things really like conspiratorial thinking and belief in immediacy ironically go hand in hand. What's ironic is that conspiratorial thinking requires all these layers of mediation, right? Right. Oh, but it's because you don't trust the thing that's in that's,. that's sort of the immediate, not immediate, but the directly mediated thing in front of youLike something that comes over CNN, it must be some other thing manipulating it. That's where the air are alive.

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