Why are conspiracy theories so popular?

 Conspiracy theories are popular becouse people want to feel smarter than others and belonging to a small group of people that think diffrently from everyone else captures that feeling perfectly. We strive to be better than others becouse we were rewarded for it in our childhoods. Winning a competition gave us a sense of being in some top percent of people and being a part of a conpiracy group does the same. People beliving in conspiracy theories may feel as if they are the only ones that are smart enough to understand the arguments to why ,for example, the Earth is flat or vaccines couse cancer. The idea that thinking diffrently from others makes us smarter than them is the main factor to the recent rise in popularity of conspiracy theories.

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  1. englishdiary6 grudnia 2021 10:55

    You offer an interesting and original explanation in a well-structured paragraph.

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