Conspiracy Theories- What are they?
First of all we have to know what a
conspiracy theory is, so, it is an explanation of an event or situation that
invokes a conspiracy. They usually involve illegal or harmful acts supposedly
carried put by the government or other powerful actor without any kind of
credible evidence or proof.
They also rely on the view that the universe is
governed by design, and embody three principles: Nothing happens by accident,
nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected. Another common feature of
this interesting topic is that conspiracy theories evolve to incorporate
whatever evidence exists against them, so that they become, a close system that
is unfalsifiable, and therefore “ a matter of faith rather than proof “.
Psychological terms such as Machiavellianism and Paranoia are highly correlated
with conspiratorial thinking.
People have the power to make
conspiracy theories become commonplace in mass media, adding that conspiracies are called like a cultural phenomenon in the
United States in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Conspiracy theories are widely
present on the web in the form of blogs and Youtube videos, as well on every
social media. Some topics of conspiracy theories have been more highly
researched than others, meaning they have high-quality links in their results.
One of the most popular topic of
the conspiracy theories may be the intriguing Mandela effect. This famous
conspiracy theory goes like this:
The Mandela effect is a
phenomenon where a large amount of people have a false memory about an event or
fact. Nelson Mandela´s death in 2013 was the initial event to spark and also
name the conspiracy because of a numerous amount of people remembered him dying
while he was in prison in the 1980s. People claimed they recalled news clips
and TV coverage of Nelson´s funeral. But that's not what happened. After being
released from prison, the activist was the president of South Africa and he
lived for the next three decades. But, Nelson Mandela's death was only the
beginning. since then people online have found multiple instances of the
Mandela effect, which is why Conspiracy Theories
are really important in our pop culture nowadays.
