So back when Snowden told everyone that the u.s government had mass surveillance on the people there wasn't very much outrage.
And I remember a discussion on reddit I posted. I asked if because this idea of "the government is spying on me" has long been associated with cooky crazy paranoid people, that when we learned it actually was all true, that we still were reluctant to engage with it because of its ties to being a paranoid crazy person.
A few people commented but not much could be determined because there is no research on this.
But I speculated that people are apprehensive about engaging in proven conspiracy theories because of the association with conspiracy theories and personality traits that are less socially acceptable (only nut jobs talk about conspiracy theories).
Most people will only engage with the topic once it has become socially acceptable to do so.
How such a topic moves from "only cooky people talk about it" to "everyone talks about it" is not clear. But possibly it is the result of enough people with pull talking about it enough to encourage others.
What are your thoughts on this ?