Re: "COVID is more a trust crisis than a health one IMO"
More foundationally we're in an intellectual-ideological crisis.
Conspiracy theories are different than conspiracy hypotheses - the quality of the proof or argument points.
I think it's important to understand too though that "conspiracy theory" is the same if not very close to ideology, or say an ideologue, just an ideology has a more developed framework.
This does all tie back to trust and knowledge/education, or different funnels or channels of indoctrination - and whether the information seen is ripe with critical thinking or devoid of it; whether it has been analyzed and adequately criticized, challenged, or if it is more akin to propaganda and manipulation.
More foundationally we're in an intellectual-ideological crisis.
Conspiracy theories are different than conspiracy hypotheses - the quality of the proof or argument points.
I think it's important to understand too though that "conspiracy theory" is the same if not very close to ideology, or say an ideologue, just an ideology has a more developed framework.
This does all tie back to trust and knowledge/education, or different funnels or channels of indoctrination - and whether the information seen is ripe with critical thinking or devoid of it; whether it has been analyzed and adequately criticized, challenged, or if it is more akin to propaganda and manipulation.