Conspiracism distorts everyday personal relationships, not just politics

Evidence

What makes this especially disturbing is that epistemic polarization reaches “all the way down,” producing, as we said, polarization at the deep level of mind—distorting what it means to know something. The new conspiracist polarization pursues us all the way down in another respect: it extends from the public sphere and the internet and media into the relations that shape our everyday lives. In this way conspiracism distorts a whole range of social and personal interactions. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 296

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: New conspiracism dissolves shared perceptions of political reality — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 373; Conspiracy worldviews corrode the shared trust reality depends on. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 137

Broader Connections

• Conspiracy worldviews corrode the shared trust reality depends on. #expands (0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 137
• New conspiracism dissolves shared perceptions of political reality #complicates (0.72) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 373