Are you religious? Because this same logic could be applied to religion. At the end of the day, people don’t understand why we just happened to appear on a rock hurling through time and space so we use religion to fill in the gaps of our knowledge. It’s why we call a religion “faith.” We don’t really 100% know whether it’s true but we believe it is.

I don’t say this to denounce religion as I’m a practicing Catholic but the point remains. Human nature is to want to know why things happen. As a species, we do not and have never taken solace in the unknown.

Politically, that same logic leads people to fill in the gaps when the government that supposedly represents us keeps us in the dark. This is amplified when the media seemingly does nothing but push the desired narrative despite what is in front of people’s face (I.e., burning buildings behind a “peaceful protest” headline).

Frankly, our government and media only have themselves to blame for the rise in so-called conspiracy theories. People see the inconsistencies in what they tell us. That sows distrust and leads people to fill in the gaps on their own. I have no idea whether the “conspiracies” are true. However, I do know what the sacks of shite in the media and government are pushing are generally unreliable or, at minimum, not painting the full picture. So, because of the unknown, they start to become more plausible when the narrative force-fed to me continually contradicts itself.

At the end of the day, I don’t believe any of it. There’s things we just will not know; just like I’ll never know, at least until the day I die, if there really is some benevolent force that put me on this flying rock. However, it’s asinine to think that people will just accept things from sources that have proven to be dishonest at face value. Their own dishonesty has led to the conspiracies they love to decry. They should start doing a little introspection as to why these things come about rather than point fingers because that same finger-pointing strengthens people resolve to uncover the unknown.