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    1. Joshua Holland‏Verified account @JoshuaHol 4 Feb 2020

      Joshua Holland Retweeted Jeet Heer

      And with very good reason. Institutional failures get fixed but cynicism and distrust, which are anathema to a healthy democracy, fester and multiply.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1224764645333966849 …

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      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      It's a curious thing that after every massive institutional failure (Epstein's death in prison, Iowa) there's a subset of people more upset about the conspiracy theories these events generate than the fact there was a massive institutional failure.
      6 replies 9 retweets 67 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @JoshuaHol

      I'm waiting for the institutional failures to get fixed!

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    3. Joshua Holland‏Verified account @JoshuaHol 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      We all are. The conspiracy theories don't help.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @JoshuaHol

      They don't help but it's important to keep things in perspective. The institutional failures are the root problem, the conspiracy theories an epiphenomenon of that problem.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Joshua Holland‏Verified account @JoshuaHol 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      That's not true generally. Conspiracism may not flourish to the same degree when everything runs smoothly, but it's a constant. Fluoride works wonders. Vaccines save lives. Those aren't institutional failures.

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    6. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @JoshuaHol @HeerJeet

      What we've seen is that once unleashed, resolving the institutional failures does little or nothing to reel in the conspiracism. It's like a Pandora's Box opening up to the irrationally fearful part of our brains. It becomes a destructive force unto itself, immune to fixes.

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    7. Joshua Holland‏Verified account @JoshuaHol 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @DavidNeiwert @HeerJeet

      Exactly. The DNC fucked up in 2016 by not maintaining strict neutrality but the idea that they actually rigged the process somehow is still widespread.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @JoshuaHol @HeerJeet

      I agree with @HeerJeet's point that institutional failures are a major wellspring of conspiracism, especially when the subsequent "fixes" are so doomed and bankrupt (see 9/11). But even when the issues are resolved (see Obama's birth certificate) the conspiracist ideas persist.

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Feb 2020
      Replying to @DavidNeiwert @JoshuaHol

      Absolutely, once they are out there, conspiracy theories have a life of their own (anti-Semitism being the classic example). But I think Hofstadterian accounts ignore the role played by elite failure (or, sometimes, as in Birtherism, elite promulgation).

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