162: Is Our Book a Conspiracy Theory?
Conspirituality
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The Paranoid and Dissociative Style of World Building
I think we can stop short of conspiracism by just acknowledging that we still don't know for sure. I'm hearing that word more in this house as the 10 year old starts coding video games with programs like Blockbench and World Painter. But when you talk about gathering up multiple instances of unverified data points, I'm imagining Minecraft blocks or materials in these worlds that are not completely coded in and of themselves. There's a pile of sort of half truths and distortions. And there's this sort of assumption that they can somehow stack up into a livable alternative reality.
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