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It's significant that both women the author profiled lived through repeated traumatic events in childhood and are socially isolated and adrift. The last two traits in particular create a trap: These attracted them to a toxic combination of New Age beliefs and conspiracy theories (a combo dubbed "conspirituality" here) in the first place. Then, conspirituality circles [BELOW]
— Jan 19, 2026 11:04AM
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"Sometimes all you can do is try to get the conspiracist to focus on the real world and spend less time online. Researchers have shown that activities and goals that give conspiracists a real-world focus can help to break the spell. When conspiracists are focused on real-life objectives, outside their online circles, those groups and conspiracies begin to matter less to them. Most people prefer [BELOW]
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"Serendipity [...] is the bread and butter of conspiracism and conspirituality. In this world, nothing happens by accident. Everything in life is scripted and planned, both by the "black hat" forces of evil and the "white hat" good guys. Coincidences don't exist. Correlation is causation. It's not just that conspiracists assume a connection between two or three seemingly unrelated events. They [BELOW]
— Jan 24, 2026 02:27PM
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I wanted to read this book to learn about the rise of conspiratorial thinking among women in general, but the “women” of the subtitle is deceptive. Instead this book profiles two deeply troubled (and frighteningly uneducated) women who enthusiastically assaulted police officers and trespassed inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Their humanizing, heartrending backstories offer [BELOW]
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offer the supposed concrete answers and sense of purpose they crave, plus an online community of others like them. However, the deeper people sink into conspirituality, the deeper their loneliness gets, as online socializing can never do the heavy lifting required to satisfy a species as highly social as humans. And beyond that, such delusions turn off (most) real-life people who could offer crucial grounding and a truly satisfying connection to the real world. In all seriousness, getting outside in nature and depression-busting sunlight everyday for at least an hour would also help. That isn't its own New-Age bullshit; science proves it.
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