i have an ur-conspiracy theory that every elaborate conspiracy theory is a distraction from a simple and straightforward conspiracy. for every “trump is trying to uncover a vast child sex ring” there’s a “trump fucks kids and our system of capital protects him”
That kind of sums up the difference Naomi Klein makes in Doppelganger about conspiracy theory and leftist critics: Leftists will look at the system while conspiracy theorists will assume the system is good but some people, most often Jews, have somehow corrupted it.
As Naomi Klein said: Conspiracy theorists often get the feeling right but the facts wrong.
i have an ur-conspiracy theory that every elaborate conspiracy theory is a distraction from a simple and straightforward conspiracy. for every “trump is trying to uncover a vast child sex ring” there’s a “trump fucks kids and our system of capital protects him”
That kind of sums up the difference Naomi Klein makes in Doppelganger about conspiracy theory and leftist critics: Leftists will look at the system while conspiracy theorists will assume the system is good but some people, most often Jews, have somehow corrupted it.