Conspiracies theories are real - The Hardline According to Stonefruit 14
Channel: Ahead of the Curve
Date: 2023-01-29

On one hand, conspiracy theories have become a part of a default popular skepticism towards history and government, especially since the 1960s and Watergate. On the other hand, ridiculing, denigrating, and marginalizing conspiracy theory has also become an integral part of the conventional wisdom itself, a social technology of control that establishes the boundaries of "responsible discourse” by reflecting elite consensus on the fundamental nature of social reality, in accordance with the elite's own class interest. Instead of the usual characterization of conspiracy theory as an individual psychopathology, it can be better thought of as a populist fusion of life writing, historiography, and political science which provides explanatory narratives that contradict the elite consensus on history and contemporary reality. This is a major development in the long tradition of popular resistance to the power elite and economic oligarchy, not of the right vs. left, but of the bottom vs. the top. In this sense, it represents a last-ditch effort by the supposed repositories of popular sovereignty - the people - to save liberal humanism from its demented doppelganger: elite omnicide.

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