people from their families it has driven at least one man to murder his own children and not too long ago there was a bomb threat in dc by a q anon believer you can just check places like the q anon casualty subreddit where you see heartbreaking story after story about people who have lost family members to what is essentially conspiracy theories sort of fit into this at their extremes occult one of the more tragic recent things is that a victim of the parkland shooting has had his father become radicalized into q anon stuff and now his father is convinced that his own son was a crisis actor at a false flag shooting so this is awful obviously and i believe that you can be a dissident without falling for this kind of stuff the two things that come to mind right away is that you should probably always be aware of your own thoughts maybe do a little bit of introspection and try to see if you hold any unfalsifiable beliefs and because they're stuck in these belief loops realize that you can't really use reason debate to talk them out of it no amount of tactical slurs are gonna work here and to go back to chomsky because you know nine times out of ten he's always right you don't need to see secret plots to think that there is some stuff seriously wrong with the world you don't need to believe in secret conspiracies to realize that there are places where billionaires meet up to carve up the world's resources and change politics to make sure that they're always in power because it's called davos and they release their panels free on youtube and you can get a lot more mileage understanding why institutions do what they do by looking at them as groups as institutions there's something that chomsky has written about called institutional stupidity which is a sort of irrational thinking that makes complete sense but only if you're using the internalized logic of a certain type of institution so yeah conspiracy theories are complicated and there's a lot more to it than just plain dismissal of people who are doing bad think it's more about how you think than what you think and in many ways it leads to these pockets these communities that can be extremely dangerous so that's a real juxtaposition from the stance i took in my first video so i've obviously changed a lot between now and NUMBER_TOKEN. it's been six amazing years and the fact that i went from making horrible images in google slides to what i'm doing now with NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN of you huh thank you for six years and here's to many more oh just one thing before you go as a white man i am required by law to start a podcast and i am doing so soon with scott nice wonder from nerdsync we are doing a podcast called it's probably not aliens it's a long-form response to the television show ancient aliens as well as off about pseudo-archaeology and pseudo-history and stuff like that it's going to be premiering on october NUMBER_TOKENth so stay tuned i'll try to put things out on the things so that you know uh where to find it when it's available take care
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