@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:25

The Conspiracy Drug

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Right. It gives endorphin rushes get adrenaline flowing. Aha, I know the inside story and you don't. Right. And I think that this is not being looked at properly. These people are addicted to the ideas of conspiracy. And much like with actual drug addicts, their behavior becomes unstable. They no longer become recognizable as a person you once knew. And I think that's truly what we're dealing with here

How did we get here?

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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 2:29

The feeling of control and the broken news model

So it's clicks, it's eyeballs. And even some of the more reputable news outlets have to at least acknowledge some of these conspiracy theories, whether it be as an anti or just mentioning of that conspiracy theory, it will attract clicks. Thus they get paid more. And so that model is kind of broken, but it does lead credence to a lot of conspiracy theories. And it also opens the door to a lot more smaller, more kind of crackpot people that can just post on anything
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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 4:46
Hey, Joe. So I was thinking about what you're asking here, and it reminded me of this documentary I recently watched about gang culture in the inner city in Los Angeles and how young people get recruited to join gangs and they join as early as 1011 years old. And one of the things that was pretty consistent across the board for the answer as to why people in these gangs is that they need some sort of companionship or a family
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:41
And this is again someone that was like family to them and they were very hurt by this and they just couldn't wrap their head around how this person transformed into something else entirely. And it kind of reminds me of what you were discussing about your aunt. And I have to wonder, did they transform or were they concealing who they were all along?
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:10

@AverageJoe

And then they find that the people that they agreed with on the initial hatred content are also agreeing with this. So it must be true, I think how you're seeing in the past when we consume the content we had, let's say one journalist, I was speaking to us or writing whom we read, and we chose whether to what parts of it to accept and what parts of it to not based on our own education and so on. But now we have 1000 comments
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