Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Spaulding Showalter's avatar

Good article, and agree with the overall theme. But it belittles many Truths and truthseekers while elevating self. Truth isn’t partisan and is fundamentally Simple. Just my opinion. ❤️✊

Expand full comment
Vincent Cook's avatar

If one defines a "conspiracy" as a secret agreement to harm others, then the dichotomy between conspiratorial elites and popular consent doesn't hold. Popular consent itself is used as a weapon for legitimizing the infliction of harm on a vast scale, often directed against the vast majority of people in a democratic society.

It is precisely for this reason that the engineering of democratic consent is a major preoccupation of exploitative elites. Secrecy not only shields the conspirators from accountability for the harms that follow, it also sustains the illusion that the victims did it to themselves. The fuss elites make against "conspiracy theories" (even the false ones) is that they threaten this illusion.

Expand full comment
45 more comments...

No posts