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#756: December 5, 2003

Knowledge Fight

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Where Does Conspiracy Theory Serve to Make Things Feel More Like You Think They Should Be?

This is an example of a few actually I think that you're going to see on this episode of Places Where Conspiracy Theories Serve to Make Things Feel More Like You Think They Should Be. So Alex reads these headlines right and he knows these articles he knows what they say before he even reads them. This is such a perfect encapsulation of Alex's methods except he's lying about following up by reading the stories. He just sees a headline and decides he knows what the article is about then doesn't change his mind when presented with evidence that his manufactured narrative is based on nothing. It can't possibly be this. That doesn't make sense to me emotionally, intuitively or whatever. Or even

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