conspiracy theory - lesson plan
What are conspiracy theories you know about?
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? 15 minutes syncretic conspiracy theories
Why apocalypse and accelerationism? (Doomsday cults?) 30 mins
Why would a unified evil be appealing? (Honestly merge this with apocalypse and accelerationism) No evidence is evidence of a conspiracy 45 mins
Why are conspiracy theories dangerous?
Upbringing, Comfort, what they’ve been taught, bring closure
Easy answer to stuff
Social media
Validation, they feel validated, certain patterns
Social medias
- Hitler isn’t dead
- This is all a simulation
- The Earth being flat
- Hellen Keller
- Elvis isn’t dead
- Biggie Killed Tupac
- 9/11 was all planned
- Covid vaccines
- Birds are fake
- Moon landing was faked
