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human
CMV: there is a conspiracy (or a set of them) whose goal is to spread anti-intellectual ideas on the world, and to prevent any form of critical thinking.

Confusion, denial, dissonance, crazy stuff in general; so crazy that you're forced to believe "don't think about it." Isn't that what people nowadays are into? Those that are going on in TV and social media? I've seen people are digging this stuff a lot, and they show no signs of stopping.

I think we let our guard down once we stop thinking about anything, at least critically. It does look like to me that they're doing everything in their power to make us none the wiser. 

It's probably due to me just correlating this to 1984, which is just fiction. Except propaganda and disinformation is real, and have proven to be potent weapons of control.

I for one, would hate to be controlled by stuff like this, so it shouldn't be a surprise that this is one thing I fear.
gpt
Surely a much more likely explanation for all the anti-intellectualism and propaganda is that people with similar goals will end up using similar tactics and talking points to achieve their goals without forming any kind of conspiracy.

Say there's a new bill or set of policies meant to combat climate change, an oil lobbyist might want to oppose it because it would hurt their companies profits, while a neo-liberal might not like the amount of government spending and nationalisation in the bill, and a career politician might be against it simply because it might make their opponents who proposed it look good.

So they all go to the public square to attack it, and when one of them manages to capture a lot of attention they all copy that person's homework to use the tactics and points that work. And if that happens to take the form of attacking the idea of "experts" or claiming climate change is a Chinese hoax, or regulations are ways for "elites" to keep down small business so be it. They can't get good science behind them after all because good science points towards the policies being necessary and helpful.

And thus with no conspiracy or coordination whatsoever you have an anti intellectualism movement on the go.