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Richard Cox on Dick, Icke, Conspiracies & Undiluted Madness

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The Need for Myth and Story

The book was how di we take a deeper look at this phenomenon of conspiracy theory. Some of the more elaborate conspiracies, like david ike's reptilians, are speaking to our need for metaphor and story. How does that effect how we think about geal politics and understanding the world? And that's a question that, it's wide open for me. Tat swort, i'm exploring. As terry pratchet said, humans don't need pantasy to deal with life. Humans need fantasy to be human. That's a part that's unfortunately suppressed in our modern times,. during the age of enlightenment and so forth. It really is essential even to see the world

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