why do so many older people end up going super deep into the conspiracies? whatever happened to age bringing wisdom?
is it a lifetime of trusting media that didn't teach them to vet sources on facebook? or equate a random blog with something like a newspaper?
is this because of facebook? or youtube? (i don't remember this being an issue with old people in, say, 2012)
and while I mention q-anon, my father-in-law is Russian, and he's fucking balls deep on all sorts of conspiracy stuff on youtube.
god bless his crusty ass, he believes in a super race of Atlantis that had near-cosmic weapons, that some ancient people could live forever in some near-mummified state and he also believes some Indian sham guru called Sai Baba who tricked people into thinking he was a saint with cheap magic tricks.
and this guy used to work in a nuclear power plant back in the day, he's not a 'stupid' person, in the formal sense.
what do you guys think?