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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yea i dont think this is "of this age" per se, Tim Melley makes a persuasive case it starts in the late 50s and hasn't really stopped (its just that the distribution of accumulated wealth has stagnated/regressed so its appeal as a form of agency has increased)
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don't these myths (conspiracies that are narrative and produce significance) have predecessors all the way back to colonial times? counter-subversion narratives have animated US politics since the beginning no?
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Communism & Catholicism were the perfect foils for American conspiracists; both were international in scope, both had goals that were perceived as inimical to cherished American individualism & patriotism. Birchers thrived off of those fears...
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Shea and Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus trilogy carried this to its logical extreme. I’ve often thought some of the modern conspiracy people were looking for Hagbard Celine.
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Not to add fuel to the fire but there have been thirty+ years of consultants telling people how to improve their marketing. Surely, this spills into where we are at now with conspiracy theorizing.
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