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Adam Curtis

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I Think It's Not New. Conspiracy Theories Emerge

Conspiracy theories emerge when those in power seem to have run out of a way of explaining the world. I would argue that a lot of my profession, journalism, ran out of no people began to realize that journalists didn't really know what was going on from about two thousand and one onwards. But they, i think it's slightly dying away. The feticisation of artificial intelligence, which happened yeast four or five years ago, made you realise god isn't supposed to know you better than you know yourself. Everything is gong to be controlled by computerised machines - including religion. They're talking about gong because,. asit isn't, god supposed toknow you better thanyou know

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