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Nobody Knows What is Going On

The world is chaos. Nobody from any government or place knows what is going on. Why? Because — there ain’t no conspiracy. Randomness and chance and chaos in the modern world amplified with technology, hyper-media, social media, internet monetization, advertising, algorithms and globalization leads to even more noise and getting suckered by randomness.

Why are we searching for certainty?

I think most people don’t like to believe we live in a cruel and purposeless world. Why not? Because of fear. We want certainty, as insurance of potential death or loss of life.

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What if all the world is just chaos?

Don’t get suckered by conspiracy theories

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? Because of over-fitting of randomness and chaotic data points and happenings. For example, if you give me a million data points on anything, I will be able to find some sort of “correlation” of… anything.

Other theories

Another thought:

Perhaps people who come up with conspiracy theories are outsourcing their desire for religion or the sacred.

For example I find the funny thing: a lot of my atheist friends or people who I know who isn’t religious will find or discover a deeper “truth” in metaphysics, mysticism, or other forms of hocus pocus. I’m an empiricist which means I believe in embodied reality and experience.