For me, it feels like if I try to interject some room, I want to call it reason, but discussion around one of these political elements, the assumption is that if I'm not 100% on your side, then I must be on the other side. Even most sort of political people who I interact with day to day do not act like that. But I think that's like 15, 20% of the country are the really hardcore partisans who consume this stuff as a hobby or because they're doing it professionally.
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.
Hilaritas Podcast
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