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#431 - Bridget Phetasy - Are Women Being Lied To By Modern Culture?
Modern Wisdom
Conspiracy Theory and Story Telling
Psychologists have conducted experiments to shed light on why people lose, or at least suspend, rationality. When we feel uncertain, when randomness intrudes into our lives, we respond by reintroducing order in some other way. Superstitions and conspiracy theories speak to this need. For some it makes more sense to believe that we are threatened by the grand plans of malign scientists than the trance mutation of some silly little microbe.
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