Mrs. Freeholder and I are working in the yard today, and it’s lunch time. As I was eating, I was trolling down the stream at Gab, and a link to this came up. I’m going to try, and likely fail, to pull a legit money quote from it. Let’s go with this:
“On The Psychology Of The Conspiracy Denier”, Tim Foyle, https://reportingforbeauty.substack.com/p/on-the-psychology-of-the-conspiracy-7ff
I’ve read it, and I need to re- and possibly re-re-read this. But at the end of the first reading, 1 Corinthians 13:11 is what immediately came to mind.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11
These conspiracy deniers have not become “man”, that is to say, fully adult. They’re kids playing dress-up in their parents’ clothes. The problem is that mummy isn’t going to come in, clean up the lipstick and put it all back up for them. Daddy isn’t going to come into their bedroom and check under the bed and in the closet for monsters.
And when the monster shows up for them, it’s going to be a feast. For the monster, at least.
