Even worse I am having a tough time putting my finger on what the shortcoming of these people is.
It’s not IQ as I’ve seen and met quite a few gullible sheep of this sort who would undoubtedly score high. I don’t see a strong correlation either way with intelligence.
It doesn’t even seem to be one’s metaphysics or epistemology. I know devoutly religious people as well as mystics and occultist types who are nonetheless not gullible in the way that this crowd is gullible, and I have seen atheists and people with scientific backgrounds who are.
Race, nationality, even educational attainment doesn’t seem to map.
All that is a bit anecdotal. Maybe there are patterns if you look at enough data. But from what I can see there is just this subset of humanity who easily falls for bullshit when it’s framed in the right way.
Anyone can be conned of course, but I mean people who seem to just fill up a syringe with this kind of kool aid and bang it into a vein.
A friend of mine thinks it’s a desperate desire to be special that’s rooted in some kind of narcissism.
Another less generous opinion I heard on a podcast is that these people know exactly what is being dog whistled in this stuff and they are closet genocidal racists hoping for their revolution.