Places where people must directly confront physical reality to survive are less susceptible to conspiracy theories.

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• Television is the way it is because networks give people exactly what they want, which is a more depressing thought than a conspiracy. SJSteve Jobs1 Feb 1996
• Believing that a small, tightly controlling cabal secretly runs a complex system of power is characteristic of conspiracy theorizing, not realistic analysis. RARuss Allbery2 Sept 2026
• People are far less frightened of nuclear weapons than they should be, and that is a more serious danger than the ones they do fear. LRLisa Randall3 Dec 2023
• Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard. LFLawrence Freedman17 Aug 2026
• A theory that is afraid of investigation does not deserve a place in the mind RIRobert G. Ingersollc. 1876–1878

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