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The Age of Conspiracy?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Isn't It Critical Thinking?

Every time develops its own critical tools, right? I don't think we should think about it in terms of reversal or going back. We need to figure out new and perhaps adaptive models that will provide us the tools by which we can make sense not just of what's happening now, but also of what's happened tomorrow. That's why it also never makes sense if you're just debunking some kind of weird Trumpian conspiracy theory. The problem is, as you also mentioned, and there's a kind of attitude behind it of, you know, having this hermeneutic overdetermination everywhere. You're seeing that stuff sort of everywhere, potentially.

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