TST 4/11/23 - Morally Licensing a Death Cult

A recent study in PLOS ONE found that the best way to combat ‘conspiracy theories’, which are defined as anything thought independently outside mainstream narratives, was to train people to critically analyze information, i.e. train them to think a certain way and not question Big Banks, Big Corporations, Big Biotech, Big Pharmaceutical, etc. In such a short time movements against all the former have been turned into advocacy groups for digital currency, helping companies make record profits by shutting down competition, genetic engineering to save the world, and drugs to save ourselves from terror inducing newscasts and threats of ill health. To support such things gives an individual social clout and credit, thus providing them with warranted ‘moral licensing’ that allows immoral, unethical, and even illegal behaviors to be justified in the name of hiding behind nice sounding promises or perceived marginalized groups of people, who are obviously too weak to take care of themselves. These morally superior, egocentric, self centered dangers to society suffer from the dark triad of personality traits; they suffer from what we could certainly justify in calling demonic-like possessions.