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Luc Ferry: "Psychology of conspiracy"

2021-08-11T15:13:14.867Z


CHRONICLE - Faced with conspiracy, in fact, the more you try to argue, to invoke facts, the more you will be taken for an undercover agent of the conspiracy.


Rightly, Emmanuel Macron, but frankly all Democrats with him, is worried about a rise in conspiracy movements that advocate civil disobedience.

However, if we want to convince, it is better, rather than insulting or lecturing, to understand the psychological structure which underlies them.

Many people are in fact convinced that "we are being lied to", that there are far fewer deaths than people say, and even that disease, as the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has asserted, is that an invention of the powers in place intended to impose on the people measures of freedom.

It is clear that the contradictions of our rulers, initially hostile, then favorable to the past, at the same time as a late application in the middle of the holidays, did not help anything.

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The fact remains that, behind legitimate questions, there is sometimes also a paranoid structure that cannot be rationally countered.

In the face of conspiracy, in fact, the more you try to argue,

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Source: lefigaro

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