Unlocked: Bonus Episode 31 - The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh pt. 1: Narrative Archetypes and the Study of Conspiracy Theory, feat. Wendy Painting
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Do You Feel More Comfort Now at the End of This?
Wendy: I was friends in school dealing with this stuff, but now it's like a whole thing. A cottage industry. Did anyone ever send you that quote unquote disinformation expert on TikTok who created a very lovely trying upside down triangle meme of like conspiracy theories? She put Bigfoot and all that stuff. Oh my God, it's just countless. Like so many works like academic works about terrorism or even conspiracy with a. "A" The two ideas are that it's comforting and that all the information adds up, but neither are true. None of that's true.
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