i wrote a comprehensive analysis on how paranoia, pseudoscience, and moral panics became entwined with american culture throughout history, resulting in online misinformation, extremism, and viral ideological conspiracy theories like QAnon today
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this article is broken into several sections:
- polarization/paranoia
- experts/institutions
- anti-science/pseudoscience
- evangelicalism/cults
- extremely online
- pizzagate/QAnon
- human trafficking myths
- real conspiracies
- psychology
- resources
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i spent over 200 hours the past 4 months researching and writing this 15,000 word piece. the goal was to create a comprehensive history and mapping of the most prominent factors contributing to conspiracy theory culture in america (and online) today
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s/o to everyone brilliantly covering these topics @oneunderscore__ @BrandyZadrozny @wphillips49 @travis_view @rothschildmd @Shayan86 @RottenInDenmark @rob_brotherton @PokerPolitics @_MAArgentino @nezumi_ningen @willsommer @AdrienneLaF + so many others
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i wanted to deep dive way more factors for this piece, such as digital manipulation, corporate/government propaganda, global conspiracy theories, the origins of secret societies, and gun culture, but any longer and it would've been a book. maybe someday!
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special thanks to @Doug_Muller and @joecacola for editing the shit out of this article. they helped me get it down from 18,000 to 15,000 words! and s/o to @Steve_Kowalick and @zashley for the feedback as well. i really hope it's helpful for some people
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