# MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World  ## Metadata - Author: [[Helen Lewis]] - Full Title: MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Peter Thiel, a prominent supporter of Trump, is increasingly embracing conspiracy theories, believing they hold hidden truths about events like the Kennedy assassination and COVID-19 origins. Many influential conservatives are now promoting these ideas, moving away from skepticism to a more paranoid mindset. This shift highlights the danger of accepting seductive narratives without questioning their validity, as it can lead even intelligent individuals to embrace unfounded beliefs. - URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/peter-thiel-maga-conspiracism/681310/?gift=SKtFP-7gCBnFn1bNJdqPMoVO05pEGYeP313j8aSkI_U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > The second lesson is that, no matter how smart a person might be in their business dealings, humans are all prone to the same lizard-brain preference for narratives over facts. That makes choosing your information sources carefully even more important. If you spend all day listening to people who think that every inexplicable event has a malevolent hand behind it, you will start to believe that too. The fact that this paranoia has eaten up America’s most influential men is an *apokálypsis* of its own. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jk3jtn1yfpgg6p98dzkxrpqk))