213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
The Michael Shermer Show
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I Believe in Cue, or Is This Just a Con?
There's a debate in cognitive psychology circles on to what extent we default the truth. Do we just believe whatever we hear, or are we naturally sceptical? Most people maybe listen art bell and they don't believe any of it, but it's entertaining. You can't push this stuff out and not at least come to embrace some part of it as being real. It makes the world more palatable r for a certain persuasion of people. People want to believe this. People desire it to be true. And i actually heard from people who were in screen writing classes with him,. The nion revolt persona is a little more refined but it's the same thing. Now that's only one
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