162: Is Our Book a Conspiracy Theory?
Conspirituality
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The Conspiracy Theory
Julian Zelizer: Is our book a conspiracy theory? Have we just gotten high on our own supply and told a paranoid blue pill story that demonizes all those people on the other side? And can we be so sure that we're not as audience captured and opportunistic as the heterodox alt media folks we critique? Or even worse than that, as the QAnon bakers who built online brands by filtering forchan through their personal political preoccupations? He says there isn't anything speculative in the book except when it comes to some mild psychologizing about what certain behaviors might mean or where they come from. The fetish for having final complete solutions is one of the drivers of
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