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Interview with Travis View: QANon & Modern Conspiracies

Decoding the Gurus

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The Convergence of New-Wake Thinking and Conspiracy Theorists

New-wage thinking or esoteric thinking and conspiracism are kind of related in that they're both kinds of like stigmatized knowledge. They've always been on easy bedfellows, partly because new-wage thinking is optimistic. It's believed that we can enter into this new, more glorious age. But conspiracism as very pessimistic, it's very despairing. And I think the pandemic made the marriage official.

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