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    1. 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 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      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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      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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        2. Paul Elliott Johnson‏ @RhetoricPJ Apr 12
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        3. Paul Blumenthal‏Verified account @PaulBlu Apr 12
          Replying to @RhetoricPJ @HeerJeet

          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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        1. Evan Dokos‏ @EvanTor68 Apr 12
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        1. Colin‏ @WoS Apr 12
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        1. KingOfPies‏ @RegalPastry Apr 12
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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