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> Conspiratorial thinking is so popular now Maybe there are societal cycles. I read that witch trials were gripping the public attention a couple centuries ago

• akiselev 4y ago
  Normally those cycles would peter out locally, but with the internet I think we may have a self-sustaining social contagion. I remember a decade ago when r/conspiracy was all about Area 51, Orwellian surveillance, and the X-Files born from the cultural zeitgeist of the 90s. Now it's a bunch of closet pedophiles trying to distract us with QAnon MAGA bullshit.