Originally Posted by
okie
I think the issue of conspiracy theories has to be separated into two parts. The identification of incongruities, vs. the unprovable hypotheses that arise from them.
It's the conviction of any particular unprovable hypothesis that's logically wrong, and based in egos and defense mechanisms.
But people try to carry that into the core issue, which is the identification of the incongruity in the first place. So you have people separated into two camps. The "official narrative" people, and the "it happened exactly this way" people. And very, very rarely do you have someone on the sidelines who can be like yea, that shit don't add up, but no I don't have any demonstrable theories. So both sides of the argument, save for a few truly intelligent people, are both bogged down in believing they're right about something they can't know.
And that's just not how science is supposed to work, and I would call history a science. It's always written by the victors, so you have to apply scientific reasoning to the alleged facts to try and figure out which parts are lies, omissions, and straight up fact. And since time travel doesn't exist, there's never 100% certainty, and most people can't handle that, which is probably why history is indoctrinated rather than taught as a science like it should be.
Science is supposed to work differently, and sometimes does. For example, early in the 20th century, it became appararent that Newtonian physics was fundamentally wrong. It didn't take Einstein to figure out that much, because anyone with a telescope could see it with their own two eyes. And today we're in a similar predicament because now we know Einstein was wrong, too, but we don't have a theory to replace it yet. Just hypotheses.
And history can be treated in much the same way. If something doesn't add up, start trying to find a model that does. Is the absolute truth? No, probably not, but maybe it's closer to the truth. There's just something about history though that can't be left open ended. People can't handle that.
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