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In our modern lives we only have access to tiny slivers of information. Where the government is concerned, that sliver becomes increasingly narrower as information is usually redacted for “security” reasons.

All this begs the question; why do we follow the government’s or the corporation’s conclusions in lockstep given the massive amount of information that we just don’t know?Even worse, we all fall in love and in line with the narrative we create using our ideas, and- inevitably – our actions follow our most dominant narratives.

Many of us never challenge the narratives that we write to fit our own perspective. If we did, we’d find that one narrative is not necessarily any more or less true than any other.  But where conspiracy theories are concerned, most people are eager to mock those who adopt an outlook which drastically diverges from the prevailing meaning ascribed by the national mob.

Read TAP’s columnist break down how conspiracy theory is crucial to developing critical thought.