ColonyDrop [none/use name]

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  • ColonyDrop [none/use name]tovideosIn Search Of A Flat Earth by Dan Olson
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    4 years ago

    He makes Philosophytube and Hbomberguy look like total libs by comparison with how they treat the social phenomenon of conspiracy theorists. I think the main way the two try to empathize and project their own politics onto flat earthers is deeply flawed rather than analyze the social utility of believing and propagating conspiracy theories like it: which is to assert political control over people that would otherwise believe in current (mostly liberal) power structures of education, academia, science bodies, general media, etc. They don’t want to liberate people or share their subconscoius unease with capitalism, but to push their own reactionary politics. Folding Ideas on the other hand doesn’t need to sink to the “I understand you, flat earther” type of pleading rhetoric and give them the liberal benefit of the doubt because he recognizies that people/workers can have politics outside and oppositional to his own.

    People in the chapo-community have this same issue of projecting their discontent and awareness of capitalism onto the proletariat. Particularly the supposed distrust of the media they thought people in the UK and US had, which have been shown by both elections to be largely not the case.