Comments by "Bastiaan van Beek" (@bastiaanvanbeek) on "David Pakman Show" channel.

  1. The world needs more rational people and emotionally driven people with the right ethical compass. I am getting sick of superficial influencers, religious extremism, conspiracy theorists, money makers, corruption, endless economic expansion, people like Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin, etc. We live in 2024 for God's sake! Not in 2004, 1974 or 1014. PS I am not religious.
    13
  2. In the Netherlands, we have this quite intelligent politician who is a conspiray theorist and always he focuses on the occasional mistake the government or scientific research made (which is very common for every organisation) and points out how we all must see how it all isn't right etc. So conspiracy theorists are wrong 95 percent of the time and 5 right, but they also focus on 5 percent of someone or organisations being wrong and ignore the 95 of them being right.
    2
  3. And they can always hide behind phrases such as "I just know things you don't see". And every given piece of consensual scientific research or endlessly fact-checked information will be dismissed and seen equal to random shady predatory but professional looking informaton on the web. Conspiracy theorists find themselves in a big framework of interpretation and thinking that seems endlessly logical and true to them. They might even know what a conspiracy theorist is but don't consider themselves as one. They see themselves as "critical thinkers". The illusion...
    1