Liam :fnord: on Nostr: To be very clear these were not benign conspiracy theories. Conspiratorial thinking ...
To be very clear these were not benign conspiracy theories. Conspiratorial thinking in the Western tradition owes almost everything to the anti-semitism that Western political thinking itself is heir to; it’s not a pleasant or safe field. What has happened though since the 2000s and especially in the social media era is the disappearance of what used to be a hugely varied, even baroque, catchment of different conflicting political occultisms, and their homogenisation into a boring big river of right wing conspiracy-grift machine.
The worst thing about sovcit-ism and qanon is, frankly, how boring it all is. Where is Bigfoot?
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