From whence doth conspiracy the’ries stem into society?

 

Every event happening in human kind from political upheavals to anxieties about sex, technology and women all somehow get entangled into some sort of conspiracy theory.

Right from the time of the Salem Witch Hunt to the recent Covid Pandemic, people are eager to pin the blame on anyone and to accept answers on any matter.

Simply put, the human mind is wired to make sense of everything we see around us. So when something obscures happens and we can’t find an answer, the brain seeks patterns to help put our mind at peace. 

Ramsey theory states ''If there are enough elements in a set or structure, a pattern will emerge within it.''

 

Let’s look at an example using the Ramsey Theory. When Covid- 19 first started spreading around the globe, it caused confusion and chaos everywhere. The first instinct was to find out where and how it arrived. When there wasn’t a clear answer; a news media reported that it was transmitted from bats. This led people to connect the consumption of a bat to the emergence of Covid-19 in humans. Now I am not saying that was a conspiracy theory but we can quite easily see how the human mind tries to find patterns so any theory could make sense.

 

Similarly, there is by and large a lot of news these days, which leads to a lot of fake news, which can be deemed as a conspiracy theory, because they are not supported by facts. And supported by the speed of the internet, I am sure conspiracy theories are not going away any time soon.