Seen on MR: the Conspira-Sea Cruise, through the eyes of a skeptical journalist. (It’s exactly what it sounds like: a 7-day cruise for believers in conspiracy theories.)
More broadly, these theories reflect something that runs throughout the conference: a total lack of filters. No one seems to have ever asked, “Are these things actually true?” I have yet to hear anyone, at any session, ask a question even remotely like that. “How do you know?” “Have you tested these ideas?” “Why isn’t the research backing us up?” And the answers, which would come as a matter of course in a mainstream conference, are firewalled away by the guru status of the presenters. They’re invited experts, they must be right.
Seen on MR: the Conspira-Sea Cruise, through the eyes of a skeptical journalist. (It’s exactly what it sounds like: a 7-day cruise for believers in conspiracy theories.)
“The idea that you will die is a conspiracy.”
That’s certainly the most eye-catching phrase I’ve seen all week.
Also, page 2 gets serious fast.
Yeah, Pseudo-law is a real thing, not just Arrested Development shenanigans. More folks should be alert for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption_movement is one of my favorites. I’m a little surprised that they don’t name it—I guess they haven’t run into it enough before to know it’s a specific movement and that stuff like the flag & ‘admiralty courts’ and ‘chattel’ are not unique to those particular speakers.