How do you explain the conspiracy theorists, the covid deniers and the antivaxxers?
To put it really bluntly, they are the stupid, the poorly educated, the badly done by, the abused, and those who have been left behind, who have never amounted to anything, who have never been heard, because they are basically the disadvantaged, normally through no fault of their own, through circumstance of birth, which is the sad part of all of this, who are finding that they can be heard, and can feel important, as kings, and queens of the crazies. For want of a much better expression, they are the scum that have floated to the top of the cess pool, and they want their 15 minutes, finally.
That’s kind of awful, I know. (But it's not my job to fix the problem, it's just my job to write about it, and what else can a fiction writer do?)
Disadvantage and poor education, I’m guessing is to blame.
The increasing inequality explains most of this, probably all of this. When people don't have the same opportunities and we end up with a unequal society with the haves and the have-nots, this is what you end up with.
Equality is the answer, everyone having the same opportunities would, probably, solve most of it. We need to keep every member of society at a certain level, we mustn't let anyone fall below the basic standard by which we all need to live. We're not very good at that.
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