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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 12

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Brent S. Sirota

    Yeah, this is the distinctive feature of conspiracy theories in our age, that they make adherents feel like they are heroes in a MCU style cosmic sci-fi epic.https://twitter.com/BrentSirota/status/1513914579734175745 …

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    Brent S. Sirota @BrentSirota
    Conspiracy theory traditionally functions simply to explain social and economic forces that have become largely opaque. But nowadays it often serves to inscribe our lives in a dramatically more interesting and cosmically significant sci-fi narrative. https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1513904778740387840 …
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 12

        To hypothesize this a bit: the older John Birch conspiracy theories were also media-ized. To join in, you felt like you were in a John Buchan novel and/or Hitchcock film.

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      1. Love Mercy, Do Justice‏ @wireless_pen Apr 12
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        Uh I'm pretty sure anti-Semitic conspiracy theories gave a certain group of people a lot of heroic fantasies in the 30s and 40s. Can't blame Tony Stark for everything

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      1. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW Apr 12
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        American life is cosplay

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      1. jhwkco‏ @jhwkco Apr 12
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        This predates the MCU - would love to see an analysis of how many of these conspiracies are X-Files plots. This latest one certainly is!

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      1. Samuel Caldwell‏ @truegster Apr 12
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Also, advertisers targeting you based on past web searches to sell you crap is not "1984" or even close.

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      2. Belief respecter‏ @Bugs_Meany Apr 12
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        " in our age" its always been that way and its not much different than the way people engage with any mass media narratives beyond local news

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      3. Belief respecter‏ @Bugs_Meany Apr 12
        Replying to @Bugs_Meany @HeerJeet

        what do you think these people were doinghttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/a-beating-in-berkeley …

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      2.  🌙Dreamingnoctis (trans girl Axl Rose) ⭐ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞‏ @dreamingnoctis Apr 12
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Definitely seems relevant to the point I've seen a few people make; that the reason QAnon took off when other conspiracy theories didn't is the ARG (alternate reality game) aspect of it.

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      3. Unsurpassed Travesty‏ @chibikonatsu Apr 12
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        That participatory angle.

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      2. Jeremy Hanson-Finger‏ @jrrrremy Apr 13
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        This 1964 essay by Richard Hofstadter is still the best overview of the basis of this kind of conspiratorial thinking I've come across, if anyone hasn't seen it yethttps://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ …

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      3. Jeremy Hanson-Finger‏ @jrrrremy Apr 13
        Replying to @jrrrremy @HeerJeet

        Oh, for some reason I thought it wasn't paywalled because it was historically significant, but I guess not. Where there's a will, there's a way, however. Anyway, Hoftstadter applies this quotation from Norman Cohn on medieval millennial sects that is super recognizable today:pic.twitter.com/xdpJvpI1a5

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