Why Conspiracy Theories?

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Academic in Facebook storm worked on Russian 'dark' personality project

The psychologist at the centre of a scandal over the misuse of millions of Facebook users' personal data worked with Russian researchers on a study of toxic personality traits.

www.reuters.com

 

[luka]

i dont understand.

 

[shiels]

Ah, I thought the big 5 was the useful model For CA. I remember PUA creeps going on about dark triad but surely it’s only a tiny amount of the population

 

[luka]

hes malfunctioning

 

[shiels]

Oh I get it now. The test might superficially be about dark triad traits but you gather all types of info on people and their FB friends

 

[luka]

i think we were getting too close to the truth so he is trying to lead us away from the scent

 

[shiels]

I mean they’re infiltrating homeopathy Facebook groups why wouldn’t they infiltrate the most influential message board in Britain and beyond

 

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[luka]

 

[shiels]

Does anyone have stories of people who came back from long-term paranoia to being a little more grounded? What happened?

 

[luka]

grapejuice did.

 

[luka]

before i knew him though. he said he was in a really serious paranoid conspiratorial illuminati mindset for years but he took a lot of mushrooms in a forest in Japan and it cured him.

 

[shiels]

I think I remember you mentioning it before. He seems to have transcended the single conspiracy to some fractal every level Great Conspiracy. I think people can find balance again through a reestablishing trust somehow, or can learn to accept or surf the doubt and contingency

 

[luka]

have you ever got in a long term paranoia mind set?

 

[luka]

i dont mean oh im on drugs im paranoid. i mean an actual worldview you get stuck in for ages.

 

[shiels]

Around 19-20 maybe. Friends I had in america at that time entertained all kinds of shite, zeitgeist the film was out around then. I always retained enough skepticism to avoid tipping over into full evangelist but all that stuff was enough to darken my day-to-day experience for a while, knocks you off balance so you doubt everything. and daily drug use was absolutely a factor, and is a factor in the people I know who have gone off the edge a bit. It also happened at a time when i had a health scare, which exacerbated everything, a feeling of suspicion in my whole body. One of the things that grounded me again was good info and care that took me through that.

 

[Mr. Tea]

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CANNABIS CURES

Can't ignore the weed-culture crossover aspect of all this.

 

[shiels]

Absolutely. Daily smokers won't hear it though. There's only two positions you can take on it: source of all evil or cure all, there's no in between.

 

[catalog]

Lost a couple mates to the herb

 

[shiels]

That sounds like something you'd say in that strained voice people while do after inhaling, holding it in the lungs. "lost a couple mates to the herb" before letting out a few smoke hoops in eulogy