“Maybe people believe in conspiracy theories because they have hundreds of life-or-death decisions to make every day, and the institutions that are supposed to make that possible keep proving that they can't be trusted. Nevertheless, those decisions have to be made, and so something needs to fill the epistemological void left by the manifest unsoundness of the black box where the decisions get made.” @pluralistic, Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis. https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/
