> Conspiracy theorists love conspiracy theories because they allow them to feel smarter than the “sheeple” that believe the official story. [...] Sorry but couldn’t be me, I am not dumb enough to fall for that cognitive hazard.
You're right, you'd have to be a total idiot to structure your worldview around the assertion that you're smarter than everyone else.
I'm not claiming to be smarter than everyone else, but I am claiming to be smarter than the people who believe that Boeing hired Michael Fassbender from The Killer to assassinate a former employee after but only after years of whistleblowing and after all the allegedly incriminating information was already out in the open.
You're right, you'd have to be a total idiot to structure your worldview around the assertion that you're smarter than everyone else.