Aaaand there it is. The aluminum hat wearing conspiracy theorist comes out.
Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
I wouldn't say that paralleling the leftists in my life with those who are into clique-ish high school popularity contest behavior is a "conspiracy".
People's groupthink-y informational isolationist filter bubbles are a real phenomenon.
The problem with having a secular society is that the people who would have been religious violent zealots 4-500 years ago are instead violent zealots of other things.
Some parts of the world still have that phenomenon religiously; look at ISIS for example. Now they're political zealots, identarian zealots, and things of that nature.
People have always been selfish, murderous bastards looking for any social loophole to act out their desires. It used to be the church, now it's either approval or a blind eye turned by the media (the 4th estate), the state (the 2nd estate), and/or academia (the new 1st estate).
The narrative is whatever is convenient to push the agenda forward. That's not a conspiracy, that's what happening every day in front of our eyes.