A good critique of the film, Plandemic.
I do love that last paragraph. It is exactly why people are prone to conspiracy theories. A good conspiracy theory turns the believer into a hero, a warrior with secret knowledge that none of the other ignorant “sheeple” know, against powerful forces arrayed against him. A good conspiracy theory almost always has a part at the end in which the “people” (in this case, the people believing the conspiracy theory) “wake up” and see what is being “suppressed” by the powerful forces seeking to keep them ignorant. Conspiracy theories like this both make the believer feel special and brave for having secret knowledge and fighting to make it public, but also provide an explanation for bad things happening in the world. Yes, the conspiracy theory in Plandemic is utterly ridiculous to those of us who know science, medicine, and history, but most people don’t know the relevant science, medicine, and history. To them, it sounds plausible.
Judy Mikovits in Plandemic: An antivax conspiracy theorist becomes a COVID-19 grifter
" but most people don’t know the relevant science, medicine, and history."
ReplyDeleteThis goes too far and brings in "history" and perhaps "medicine" into it here...
Should just be: " but most people don’t know the relevant science"
Just stop right there...
history has no place here as a platonist dicsipline and proper "medicine" would just be like any science...
History is problematic. It is putty for propagandists.
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