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by hire_charts
1978 days ago
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My use of the words secret and conspiracy was, at least in part, in response to the parent comment: > everyone else is loosing their minds and ushering an authoritarian pseudo-communist state in the United States. Glenn sees it, and is trying desperately to warn us. This is conspiratorial thinking. The whole "wake up, sheeple" mode of political argument is based in the paranoid belief that clandestine groups and powerful actors have a certain degree of control and agency over the world, and that there are those in possession of awareness or knowledge who can "reveal" the truth to the masses. Rather than making more political-sounding quips, and in the interest of providing something more substantial to this forum, I will recommend a web series called "This is Not a Conspiracy Theory," which is a great overview of the history of conspiracy theories through to the modern day, and how the best conspiracy theories are often rooted in the kinds of facts, uncertainty, and paranoia that resonate with the zeitgeist of their respective eras. http://www.thisisnotaconspiracytheory.com/series |
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Except nothing in the quote says anything about clandestine actors.
You are adding that.
Also nothing about warning people has anything to do with paranoia or ‘wake up sheeple’.
Again you are adding something out of whole cloth that simply isn’t present in what he is saying.
There is nothing ‘paranoid’ about saying that a liberal democracy can become authoritarian if it adopts certain priorities and practices, or warning of this when those practices are being adopted.
Commenting on an observable trend is not the same as claiming that there is a conspiracy behind it.
On the other hand, dismissing ideas as ‘conspiracy theories’ can be a way of simply discrediting one’s political opponents, so we need to be careful not to do it casually.