• The Picard Maneuver
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    914 days ago

    Conspiratorial thinking.

    Many people are motivated by a need to feel superior to others, have a strong distrust of authority, and/or feel that acceptance of a belief system is a requirement of their internalized group identity.

    • @forrgott@lemm.ee
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      214 days ago

      They’re afraid of a simple truth: they don’t matter.

      In the grand scheme of things, none of us do. Not even those “remembered” by history. A person is so much more than a name or the deeds they accomplished, but none of that will last beyond your death. Not for any of us.