"There seems like a national global well, to me, if chapel perilous is sort of this place where the old ways are starting to crumble and no longer have meaning," he says. "I think that when trust in the old authorities decay, decays, you know, some people are going to look for substitute certainties ... I think what the hell is going on over there? Yeah, it certainly seems to be happening in politics right now." The author's problem with the horseshoe metaphor is that it's too linear.
In this episode, we chat with Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America.
IN AMERICA. He is an editor at Reason magazine, and he lives in Baltimore.
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Host/Producer Mike Gathers
Engineer Ryan Reeves
“In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out agnostic.” -RAW