I find the recent history of conspiracy-ism so fascinating. I'm in my forties. A significant amount of my social time in my 20's was spent poo-pooing left conspiracies about Bush amongst lefty friends. 9/11. Rigged voting machines. He'd cancel elections, etc. In fact for the first 3 or 4 years I knew of Alex Jones I thought he was a Keit…
I find the recent history of conspiracy-ism so fascinating. I'm in my forties. A significant amount of my social time in my 20's was spent poo-pooing left conspiracies about Bush amongst lefty friends. 9/11. Rigged voting machines. He'd cancel elections, etc. In fact for the first 3 or 4 years I knew of Alex Jones I thought he was a Keith Olbermann lefty type loudmouth because it was my lefty friends who were sending me links to his stuff! (Which I admit I wasn't reading closely because I thought it was nuts.) I'm honestly not sure how many lefty anti Bush conspiracists have migrated to right-ish conspiracies or if the current right ish conspiracists are a whole different group. Does anyone know of a good apolitical and (relatively) non judgemental book/article discussing "conspiracy theory in the 21st century" or something like that? I would love to read it.
(There may not be such a thing since this is such a political hot button. But if there is I think it'd be interesting as heck.)
I find the recent history of conspiracy-ism so fascinating. I'm in my forties. A significant amount of my social time in my 20's was spent poo-pooing left conspiracies about Bush amongst lefty friends. 9/11. Rigged voting machines. He'd cancel elections, etc. In fact for the first 3 or 4 years I knew of Alex Jones I thought he was a Keith Olbermann lefty type loudmouth because it was my lefty friends who were sending me links to his stuff! (Which I admit I wasn't reading closely because I thought it was nuts.) I'm honestly not sure how many lefty anti Bush conspiracists have migrated to right-ish conspiracies or if the current right ish conspiracists are a whole different group. Does anyone know of a good apolitical and (relatively) non judgemental book/article discussing "conspiracy theory in the 21st century" or something like that? I would love to read it.
(There may not be such a thing since this is such a political hot button. But if there is I think it'd be interesting as heck.)