A Lonely, Bewildering, Radicalizing Culture

[Celerity]

Conspiracy theories are the result of alienating, confounding cultures that hide the machinations of power from their people and have tragic, murderous results

https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-lonely-bewildering-radicalizing



I get…a lot of mail. Some of it is very kind and thoughtful. A card from a stranger. A drawing in charcoal. Handmade masks at the beginning of a pandemic. But some of it, much of it, is strange and ominous.

Massive self-published books. Envelopes full of printer paper glistening with bright highlighter strokes, webs of lines and circles in ballpoint pen. Cut out pictures from magazines and newspapers alongside explanations of how hidden organizations control the halls of government.

Some of it has been so unnerving that I’ve had to contact authorities and, in one case, actually considered whether someone who had mailed me might have been the so-called “MAGA Bomber” who sent pipe bombs to the critics and rivals of President Donald Trump. As a public figure, I’ve been linked to Deep State operations, thrust into the fever-dream swamp of QAnon narratives, and had people show up at my house believing I’d played a role in some large, clandestine, complicated conspiracy.

My life is a lot more boring than all of that, but this is a side-effect of a political system and society where the actual machinations of power are often hidden, where reality is intentionally manipulated, and the populace is both neglected, in terms of their wellbeing and needs, and consistently lied to.

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Or there's just really a lot of stupid and mean ass mofo's ... my pet theory on this subject (nt)

[jmbar2]

2. surplus of men with high testosterone

and no purpose in life. They want to feel important, but they aren't. Too bad we can't round them up and put them to work doing something useful with all that macho energy.