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This a little cryptic sounding sentence is in my opinion one of the biggest thrives for conspiracies in our modern world as it was in ancient times. There are numerous scientific studies and articles which show, that in times of big crisis the conspiracy world blooms. And as always there must be some sort of usefulness or psychological reason for humans to do what they do or believe what they believe. Even though it sounds paradox, with believing in a conspiracy theory people regain control, because of eliminating anxiety and the unknown. I always have been interested in this subject starting with the faked moon landing, the faked 9/11 attack and which is a little bit more abstract why humans believe in religions and gods. In my opinion these things don’t come from nothing but must serve a specific purpose. Because nearly everything we do serves some kind of purpose. In the early days it was more like a fringe interest, but nowadays I see things different. I reckon disinformation and conspiracy theories are one of the greatest dangers we are facing right now. So, what’s up with regaining control or soothing ourselves by believing in a dark and evil cabal that wants to kill us – doesn’t sound very logical at first sight.

I’ll explain the idea behind it a bit more detailed with a simple example. Imagine you are living in medieval times in a little village as a farmer. You know a lot about the land you plow, seed and harvest. Then your crops die because of some fungi which isn’t known to you in this time. Not only your crops but also other fields wither. The first year is not that bad because the village has some stock from the years before. But then in the second year the same thing happens, and people go hungry, maybe even die because of famine. The villagers come together and pray for a better harvest, maybe to the Christian god or some pagan ones. Sadly, this doesn’t help because the fungi are still there killing the crops. In this situation the people are afraid and lose control – what if this will continue in the next years, too? What if you and the others die because of this? Missing an explanation for this disaster the villagers don’t know what to do. Then someone comes along and tells them it’s the fault of a witch or a Jew, because they are evil people in cooperation with satanic forces. Suddenly there is a solution to regain control or sooth your anxiety – just kill the person that is responsible.

The same thing on a bigger scale happens with our actual crisis we suffer today. Climate change is a big danger for everyone and everything which causes anxiety and the loss of control, because yes sure, we can all just ride our bikes or something, but it seems to make no difference – the news get worse and worse (in my opinion the big industrial global rich players in our world must change stuff but that’s just a side note). The inevitable ending of our world is very scary, and we have the feeling of no control over it. So, someone comes along and tells people it’s all just a lie. None of that will happen. Even though all scientists in the whole world say something different the solution to believe this is just a natural process leads to soothing myself and regaining control of the unknown future – all will be fine, and the science is lying anyway (presumably for some monetary gains). If you read my article about cognitive dissonance – this happens here as well.

Same with pandemics (not just Covid but the same thing happened when the big ones hit humanity in the past). We can’t control viruses, they are a big danger for our life and the same thing could happen again in the future, which is frightening and let’s us feel helpless. But, if the whole thing is just a hoax, a planed thing, I regain my control and sooth my fear. We just must eliminate the people that lie to us, or the vaccination is just some kind of weapon because then a pandemic is not dangerous at all, I regain control and don’t have to be afraid.

All these “coping strategies” serve the same purpose – we eliminate fear and regain control. Another great example is Germany after World War I. People were poor, the economy was destroyed, and a lot of suffering was all around the place. Then some guy comes along and tells the people there is a scapegoat and a solution. We all know the rest. So, in some way regaining control always comes with some form of scapegoating someone else, because we can just kill them off and our problems go away, which obviously is not really the case – just in our minds.

I wrote this article because I fear for our world, for our future and for humanity itself. Simple solutions mostly never are real solutions, and someone always profits from disbeliefs (Qui bono?). Conspiracies have shattered families, destroyed people, and led to horrific killings. Don’t get me wrong, being critical about everything is the best thing we can do, and we should be, but on a logical and reasonable basis.

Thanks for reading this (long) article, it was just about the control aspect – sadly there is much more to that, which I may cover in the future. Have a good time, take care and be aware – cheers!

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