The Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory

Last Part on This Subject

I hope everyone had a good holiday season and will enjoy a healthy new year. When people rest and recharge at the end of the year, I've been thinking about my last post regarding conspiracy theories. During a conversation with several friends, people asked what the most dangerous conspiracy theory is currently making its way through society.

By definition, a conspiracy theory is the belief that current events could be explained by the secret actions of a powerful group, motivated by often political ends. Sometimes these theories end up being true but more often than not, they live in and die in the dark corners of the internet.

Some of the most commonly known conspiracy theories include QANON, or the idea that China and Venezuela interfered in the 2020 election to stop Donald Trump. Naturally, the media loves to wax poetic about these conspiracies and talk about how they're causing distrust in our system. That's probably fair, and sure some of their believers can be dangerous, but overall there are relatively few who genuinely subscribe to their paranoia.

The great paradox of our time is that the most dangerous conspiracy theory isn't the one that lives and manifests in the dark corners of the web, it's the ones that get promoted by mainstream media, celebrities, and large corporations. That's why the most dangerous conspiracy theory is the one that formed the Black Lives Matter movement.