Hiding in Plain Sight/Curiosity
Sometimes information gaps can be used to drive conspiracy theories, where the facts are intentionally ignored to force the burden of proof with a red herring, or desensitize people with repetition to the point where they get attentional blindness, or to fill in the gap with fake explanations to give something the appearance of being resolved.
In this clip from, Luis Bunuel's "Phantom of Liberty", a child is lost in plain sight, and the adults won't admit that she is present. We see this all the time in situations where everyone in the room knows the truth, but won't admit to it being there, or have seen glimpses of it but is blocked for various reasons.
Curiosity
A friend of mine was looking out my from my window over the rooftops, and said "what is that red light going on and off?" (I must see it all the time and never noticed it or questioned it.) There just wasn't enough context to fill the "information gap".
A traffic light as an explanation is something so simple and obvious, yet 100% of the observers (just two people in this case) were left curious by a red light intermittently going on and off.
Answers are always there, but they hide behind simple explanations, or are consciously blocked by delusional strategies or tactics, or elaborate conspiracies.
In this clip from, Luis Bunuel's "Phantom of Liberty", a child is lost in plain sight, and the adults won't admit that she is present. We see this all the time in situations where everyone in the room knows the truth, but won't admit to it being there, or have seen glimpses of it but is blocked for various reasons.
Curiosity
A friend of mine was looking out my from my window over the rooftops, and said "what is that red light going on and off?" (I must see it all the time and never noticed it or questioned it.) There just wasn't enough context to fill the "information gap".
A traffic light as an explanation is something so simple and obvious, yet 100% of the observers (just two people in this case) were left curious by a red light intermittently going on and off.
Answers are always there, but they hide behind simple explanations, or are consciously blocked by delusional strategies or tactics, or elaborate conspiracies.
