{"id":1220,"date":"2019-09-19T14:07:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:17:11","slug":"how-to-deal-with-conspiracy-theories-that-affect-more-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"How to deal with Conspiracy Theories that affect more Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The phenomenon of conspiracy theories is nothing new. But there is no doubt\nthat conspiracy theories in today&#8217;s digital age are stronger, more resilient\nand more painful, affecting more and more citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As conspiracy theories are defined all those\ntheories that are given as answers against official interpretations and\nexplanations around a topic in order to persuade the reader or the viewer\nand\/or the listener that there is an attempt to conceal of real events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>It is prohibited by intellectual property law or in any way illegal use of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the offender.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/El_Paso_shooting_memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1221\"\/><figcaption><strong>People mourning at a memorial for the victims of the 2019 El Paso Walmart Shooting<\/strong><br>Photo by Author: Ruperto Miller, from panama, panama, Source: Sumina el duelo<br>licensed Public Domain, https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/deed\/en<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, as a conspiracy theory is generally considered every unproven\nand often irrational interpretation of an event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In today&#8217;s digital age, more and more people believe in conspiracy projects-theories,\ncreating both in themselves and in their social surroundings, negative feelings\nand results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the social media and the rapid advancement of technology, fake news travels very fast across the planet while misinformation can negatively affect the psychology of the individual and the masses, with negative consequences in democratic governance, at work, in every social activity while still many times for the lives of the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The twenty-one-year-old killer of the carnage of El Paso in Texas, USA, where he opened indiscriminate\nfire last August killing twenty-two people believed that he was acting against\na &#8220;plot for genocide of the white race organized by the lobby of Latins&#8217;\nand Immigrants&#8217; equally\u201d! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are not a few citizens of this world who believe that the Earth is\nflat, while there are devotees of the theory that Barack Obama controlled the\nweather and created disasters, in order to distract voters-citizens from his\npolitical practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When current US President Donald Trump strongly argues that climate change\nis a type of farce promoted by the Chinese lobbies, then the average citizen\nliving relatively socially isolated, informed about developments through social\nmedia is vulnerable to the adoption of such conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The real difficulty lies in how these conspiracy theories should be tackled by integrating those who believe them in real society. If these conspiracy\ntheories are dealt with rigorously and vigorously way or attempted to devalue\nby fooling them, then there is a high probability that these conspiracy plots will\nremain with their supporters without them daring to spread them even though\ndeep inside them they believe them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The faith of these people in these conspiracy theories and the simultaneous\nof their \u201cnon-ability\u201d to speak free of these beliefs in their social circle in\nthe fear of mocking them, isolates them and closes them even more to themselves\nby making them angrier and more confused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outbursts of this anger and accordingly the temperament and the\neducation of the follower of such conspiracy theories can cause tremendous\nsuffering to their fellow citizens and as we have been shown in the past by\nviolent events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their best treatment is to contrast these plots of conspiracy with\nconvincing arguments without the disposition and intent of irony and\ndevaluation so that the followers of these conspiracy theories are not\nembarrassed to express themselves fearing that their interlocutors would have\nmocked them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this case, they will be able to participate fearlessly in debates by\nexpressing their opinions freely knowing in advance that no one will have criticized\nthem for their beliefs. Only then and fearlessly participate in a discussion of\narguments they will be able to discern the wrong arguments of these theories\nand gradually cease to believe them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such approaches will enable the fans of these conspiracy theories to see\nclearly both what is happening with these theories and what holds in practice\nbut also that the only reason for the existence of these conspiracy theories is\nthe control over people who are not so socialized relative to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phenomenon of conspiracy theories is nothing new. But there is no doubt that conspiracy theories in today&#8217;s digital age are stronger, more resilient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2811],"tags":[1060,913,1062,1061],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-wellness","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-el-paso-tragedy","tag-social-media","tag-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}