There's a path right through the middle of the chapel that I'm going to try to combine these metaphors in some ways that were perfect and you can stick to that chapel and get to the end. Or maybe you'll just find yourself in another part of chapel perilous because that's the kind of structure it is. People will often leap to this is a special sort of confirmation bias that says like, who do I who am I most scared of who I can then blame for this? The world is weirder. It's filled with all these different folks with unique personalities and problems and circumstances. And it does not conform easily to the narratives that we want to impose on the world.
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