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A conspiracy theorist is someone whose circumstance has conspired to make fantasy preferable to reality. They are unlikely to abandon their alternate reality until we can show them some alternate to the reality they\u2019re fleeing \u2014 something better than the powerlessness and the meaninglessness that made the fantasy game seem like a more attractive choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Fred Clark<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A conspiracy theorist is someone whose circumstance has conspired to make fantasy preferable to reality. They are unlikely to abandon their alternate reality until we can show them some alternate to the reality they\u2019re fleeing \u2014 something better than the powerlessness and the meaninglessness that made the fantasy game seem like a more attractive choice. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":30214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2153,3592],"class_list":["post-30172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-literacy","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-fred-clark"],"yoast_head":"\nConspiracy Theorists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A conspiracy theorist is someone whose circumstance has conspired to make fantasy preferable to reality. 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