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The meta-conspiracy theorists

The meta-conspiracy theorists

How political bias weaponises irrationality

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Melanie Phillips
May 18, 2021
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; Goya, 1799

It’s a sign of the deepening irrationality of the times that we are beset by conspiracy theories.

In periods of great cultural stress, like now, some people try to explain the terrifyingly inexplicable by creating a neat story to tell themselves that seems to make sense of it all.

Thus conspiracy theorists …

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