A lot of the mail that I've gotten over the last probably even like 20 years has been from young people. This is how people get sucked into ridiculous conspiracy theories or neo nazis sympathies, stuff like this. There's a sociologist, Michael Barcunar refers to it as stigmatized knowledge. So if you think about any of any of your sort of outsider ways of being ways of thinking about the world, it's always like, we know something that the mainstream normies who are asleep don't know. It gives us a mission in the world. It connects us to a group of people so that we have a sense of belonging.

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