We tend to think of conspiracy thinking as "irrational" or "illogical," but in fact it is actually overly rationalistic: it plugs in every empirical detail into a simple logical structure, "the theory can explain all."
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my theory here is that primacy of reflective thought, the theory of self-interest and self-authorization of reason opened this box
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I think it has more to do with the replacement of providential history with view of human agency as the motor of social change. Conspiracy theories are bad social histories.
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