How to Change Your Mind?

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i like about your filmss, is to what extent these people are normal. Otherwise it's like the cuan of the study of the people on january sixth. Who are these people? These cuan on rigged election, crazy nuts? And turns out they're normal people to have jobs,. The business owners, they just picked up and said this is my 17 76 moment, and i'm going to lose my mind for just this one day. They somehow manage to function. It's almost like theress logic tight compartments in there where they hold things separately. I used to say the weirdest thing about weird people is how normal they are. You know, even that hard line

Shermer and Theroux discuss: how documentary films are made • religious fanaticism and why people believe • UFO cults, end-times sects, and cognitive dissonance • Scientology: religion or cult? • neo-Nazis and anti-Semitism • prisons, pornography, and prostitution • Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile • self-help movements and gurus • deception and self-deception • social proof and human conformity • are humans naturally rational, irrational, or both?

Louis Theroux is a genre-defining documentary filmmaker best known for his explorations of controversial and complex topics. Using a gentle questioning style and an informal approach, Louis has shone light on intriguing beliefs, behaviors, and institutions by getting to know the people at the heart of them — from the officers and inmates at San Quentin prison to the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; from male porn performers in California to young women with eating disorders in London.