{"id":2954,"date":"2023-03-31T01:45:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/looking-at-conspiracy-theories-from-inside-someone-elses-foil-hat\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T01:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:45:45","slug":"looking-at-conspiracy-theories-from-inside-someone-elses-foil-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/looking-at-conspiracy-theories-from-inside-someone-elses-foil-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking At Conspiracy Theories From Inside Someone Else\u2019s Foil Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking a mile in someone else’s shoes, they say, is the best way to understand them. Last week, I donned a foil hat and took to Twitter. I wasn’t out to understand conspiracy theorists \u2013 I was sarcastically mocking them. But now I do better understand how the fringes are drawn to conspiracy theories. In a foil hat, I Tweeted a video explaining that Bill Gates is using 5G to spread coronavirus. It’s crazy, yet it’s a real theory currently circulating, and while I hope every message was dripping with enough scorn to highlight the lunacy, it was fun.  I could hijack any thread about anything turning it into a chance to espouse my new wackadoo ideology. As I Tweeted, the old improv golden rule, “yes and” let me twist nearly anything anyone said into my theory. If sarcasm were used to attack my new belief, I’d give a scolding correction \u2013 “5G impacts the hippocampus, not the prefrontal cortex”. If someone made an unstoppably valid point, I could halt the discussion by claiming the person’s brain was “rotted by 5G”. In one video, hat on my head, and juggling five balls, I recited my version of the John Galt’s Speech from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. You have come to hear a message of the world crisis, and so you shall. For 12 years you have asked "who is the juggler in the tinfoil hat?" It is I speaking now. Togther we can #foilgates pic.twitter.com\/VeRQa8PXbC— Mason "ChatGPT Controls Me" Pelt (@masonpelt) April…Looking At Conspiracy Theories From Inside Someone Else\u2019s Foil Hat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walking a mile in someone else’s shoes, they say, is the best way to understand them. Last week, I donned a foil hat and took to Twitter. I wasn’t out… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,492,490,495,151,494,489,488,491,12,493,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}