Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

So, like, in general people, especially those with Dunning-Kruger, misinterpret the concept of "be suspicious if everything always confirms your views" because it's an easy thing to fling back at someone who says it. It's not about being shocked and constantly finding things that overturn your worldview, that's equally bad. And this is black-and-white zero-sum thinking common of people who have proud stories of how they change their entire worldview every so often.

The point is when your wildest least likely theories are constantly being confirmed and you don't even think about how improbable it is that they are. This type of person thinks they're doing a very complex thinking with their theory but they're not, they're instead doing the simplest explanation possible. Flattening everything down, erasing all the details to maintain the predetermined explanation. You can unhinge such a person very simply but not with the question "why would Mossad do this?" but with "why would Mossad do this?" It will just be a handwave explanation where that must have only been what they could do. Why not do something 9/11 level? They have no more evidence for dismissing that but they'll immediately start coming up with ad hoc reasons why it wouldn't be possible.

The last tweet is no different. It still has to fit into the simplistic theory. It can't be a guy just mad at Jews, it can't be a jilted lover, etc. Everything has to drive the narrative forward, especially so the person never notices that the narrative isn't going forward except the story that they're spinning for themselves that they're uniquely privy to.

This kind of person is no different from the evangelical or other who thinks they know God's plan. Someone is still in control, now it's just the Zionists. They're omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, etc. Or maybe it's the Deep State. Or a chud conspiracy. Or Marxists. Or Joanne. Or whites. But rare is the person who acts as if these things are legitimately true, no, they know that would be crazy. Much better to simply tell others about the forbidden knowledge so they can see how smart you are. This wouldn't make you a target of the omnipresent conspiracy, no, there's unwritten rules they have to operate by. After all, you're the one writing the story.

Maybe it's recency bias, but I'm also getting the impression that people are more and more confident to stand behind these things with their full name out.