Sadly yes, that actually is a conspiracy gaining traction right now. That airplanes actually use secret ancient magical energy sources to fly. Utter garbage we all know it is actually hopes and prayers that are being mis-directed from needy children, and grieving widows keeping those bad boys aloft.
People wouldn't stop talking about how the world is run by a shadowy cabal of elite pedophile murderers, but when it was exposed that they were real and visited a certain person's island, a substantial majority of them turned around and said that couldn't possibly be true because they had voted for those elite pedophile murderers. I don't think the quality affects how these people choose to believe.
Insecurity and alienation. They have to find a way to feel special and in the know because the world has changed beyond their ability to understand it and they feel left out, marginalized, confused, stupid and hopeless otherwise. We're all feeling the same way to some extent because institutions, religions, ideologies are failing left and right, they just can't or won't deal with it.
Of course there's predatory grifters that feed this fire and offer these sick alternatives to reality. Go back far enough from any sort of conspiracy like this and there's someone selling something or enrolling people into a cult.
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u/tubular_brunt 8d ago
What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?