Trumpism is like one of those fatal secondary infections. But you can’t let fear of the secondary infection lead you to denial about the primary disease. Straussian noble lying has gotten basically out of hand.
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Conspiracy theories have a clear tell: they don’t have targeted suspicions. Instead it’s a red string theory implicating everybody. That indiscriminate pattern of suspicion tells me you don’t understand enough to suspect specific people of specific things.
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It’s like when poor people rush to defend billionaires.Hercule Poirot used to scold Hastings for indiscriminately suspecting everybody in turn for no rhyme or reason, but also praise his imagination in doing so. He himself would systematically zoom in on narrower, justified suspicions.
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Great thread. I was definitely sympathetic to conspiracy before. Trumpism, anti-intellectualism, and the assumption that experts and institutions are generally always wrong or evil has gotten out of hand. People act like expertise means nothing now just because it’s fallible.
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