It does often seem to be correlated to reactionary conspiracy sentiments. There is the “non-white people could not have possibly stacked rocks this big!” thing

I guess also flat earth?

  • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    I think a lot of it is ego protection for people who don’t want to grapple with themselves not understanding how the world is put together. “well, I can’t figure out how to stack rocks, so how could someone else 5000 years ago have done it? something like this can only have been done by hyper-advanced technology” like John Fetterman recently being scared shitless by some pipework