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Conspiracy theories are fueled primarily by distrust in social institutions, so they can continue to spread just as effectively whether it's a faceless, profit-driven industry or a national government that is perceived to be in control.
Would be cool if us humans didn’t do evil shit like pretend to treat syphilis just to watch each other die. We wouldn’t have such terrible distrust if dumb shit like, “We hired prostitutes to bring men into a room and drug them so we could learn if mind control is a thing.” didn’t happen.
I’m from Appalachia, I watched every man in my beautiful little town go from caring for their families to wandering around begging for drugs and then beating their wives overnight because some jackasses decided to go all, “Awww no, this isn’t just synthetic heroin. It isn’t addictive! Modern science saves the day!” so they could ride around in private jets and have museums named after them.
I understand the antivaxxer. There are people who fuck with the lives of their fellow humans. They do it for all sorts of reasons. Money, curiosity, sadism.
Of course some people are hesitant to trust people they don’t know and worry that it’s manipulation all the way down.
Are they dumb? Yeah, sometimes. Probably most of the time actually. So what?
I’m standing here watching my babies cuddle on the couch right now. I’m not smart enough to understand what modern vaccines are doing or how they work. I can get the gist. I have to just trust that people are better now and evil people are the exception to the rule. I definitely don’t want my kids to get illnesses that will make them suffer or kill them, so they get their vaccines. Sometimes from the same companies that doomed my childhood.
For idiots like me with no education, whose families were destroyed by big pharma, no shit people are skeptical.
Hopefully someone smarter than me comes up with a solution for that distrust by making everything transparent all the way down. It will have to be that way to fix it. Even then, some people are going to believe they’re being lied to.
When you’re poor, or a minority, there are a lot of people who believe that YOU DON’T MATTER. It makes navigating the world a little bit more difficult, that’s for sure. Sometimes that kills your kid with a preventable disease.
Yes but why are Europeans feeling the same? It has been quite some time without any (?) greedy/evil people injured the population.
Edit: good luck btw!
Because people are just people. People are hard to trust.
It doesn’t matter where you are on the planet, it’s people you gotta deal with.
I hope life is treating you good.