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Ah you essentially answered my question about summarizing his views. It's quite scary that what seems like a conspiracy club lite is getting such a huge amount
by _cs2017_ 6y ago
Ah you essentially answered my question about summarizing his views.
It's quite scary that what seems like a conspiracy club lite is getting such a huge amount respect from the highly educated HN audience.
It seems the near future is converging to a bunch of conspiracy theorists duking it out with each other in front of the captive audience -- the general electorate.
Maybe it will make things easier for everyone involved if some conspirators actually do take over the world, thus making this spectacle slightly less surreal.
- gmtx725 6y agoIMO it's a strange misinterpretation of his work to think he's a conspiracy theorist. I think it is undeniable that every era has an ideology that captures the zeitgeist of the times, I think Curtis just explores the origins of those ideologies and what motivated their progenitors, he is not alleging they had shadowy plans for world domination...