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[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

At the end of the day people love being in the "in" group that knows everyone else is blinded by falsehoods and they're above it all and "in the know." Religion has been that for a lot of people in the past as well as in current times, pretty much every high control group is developed due to this mentality as well.