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Posts Tagged ‘conspiracy theory’

The Paranoid Style

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millenialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living [...]

On Conspiracies and Theories

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

cui bono? to whose benefit? (from Latin) A conspiracy may be defined as a plot between a group of people to commit an unlawful act – though, more generally, the concept of a conspiracy is known to mean an arrangement between a group of people to commit an act which, if revealed for its intent, [...]