unscientific, MSM, fulled by hate, metropolitan, ignorant, problematic, mind virus, conspiracy theory, senile, etc). It may be fair, sometimes, but it’s worth remembering that this is the same mechanism by which false and ineffective views of reality survive.

A conspiracy theory is a tautological view of the world, which survives and self-replicates by offering blunt tools to dismiss inconsistency. Similar tools help us uphold our sense of reality, like the dismissal of people and ideas with categorical sweeps (uneducated, misinformed, heretical, ...