better world connections pre internet you had to physically buy a magazine dedicated to your weird or write a letter and hope it was read by like minded post internet everyones an author all you have to do is find an echo chamber to your liking and people are morons by and large

My take on it is that this sort of 'mentality' is indulged in by people who have never come to terms with the modern 'scientific' world that they find themselves in. So they get into creating their own fantasy world that confirms to their own imaginings which is often based on a fundamentalistic Biblical world view.
I often see this wilful ignorance and stupidity on Utube. They imagine themselves as being the custodians of 'special knowledge'. Away from Utube ect. they are nobodies.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Heraclitus

People will grasp on to anything due to fear. Life is just as fearful as it's always been, but people's fears have become intensified due to the proliferation of media. Just my take on this.

Religion is a great way to control all the ignorant and gullible. The risk in times like ours is that these people are as ignorant as ever, but have unlimited access to bull-shnitzels. Not a fortunate combination.

In the era of access to information, disinformation is as popular as ever.

Also, people smoke too much weed. Weed and conspiracy theories go hand in hand. ?

The Internet and social media are two factors in the proliferation of these crazy theories. Things spread like wildfire now, not like prior to there being the www, when news and ideas travelled slowly,

We have a higher percentage of nutty people growing up.It must be to much video!

I think participation in organized religion served, albeit poorly, as a discipline of sorts. Many of the people leaving it are not going toward a better discipline; they’re going toward no discipline at all. It’s now more socially acceptable to not be affiliated with a religion, so those who previously allowed the church to do their thinking for them are now allowing the TV to do it.

There is a general trend to distrust structures of power or influence like the government, corporations, religious institutions and science among others. This goes for believers and unbelievers alike. Most of this is intentional, so there is an actual propaganda campaign against science for instance (mostly for profit) or against government regulation (mostly for profit). But on the other side this is a side effect of people having worse conditions under the neo-liberal policies of (all) political parties, globalism, automation ect. and being in need of somebody to blame (rightfully or not).
Thirdly, some people are just stupid, man.