Fueled by the internet, conspiracy theories are having a big moment in America. They're driving online chat room conversations, influencing our politics and adding to the polarization threatening to undermine our democracy.
They feel out of control because they ARE being exploited by systems that are designed to obscure the fact. They don’t understand how anything works, because those systems have replaced their education with propaganda.
Big time. Try opening a publicly funded law school, teaching the rulebook to the plebs, see the power structures try to jam it up, see if local corporate media doesn’t publish constant articles about how much money it will cost and constant op-eds like “does [name of local area] really need more lawyers?,” while their parent corporations and advertisers are represented in all things by lawyers at firms with 1,000 attorneys that each make in an hour what most working people make in a week. I’m telling y’all, it’s sabotage.
They feel out of control because they ARE being exploited by systems that are designed to obscure the fact. They don’t understand how anything works, because those systems have replaced their education with propaganda.
Big time. Try opening a publicly funded law school, teaching the rulebook to the plebs, see the power structures try to jam it up, see if local corporate media doesn’t publish constant articles about how much money it will cost and constant op-eds like “does [name of local area] really need more lawyers?,” while their parent corporations and advertisers are represented in all things by lawyers at firms with 1,000 attorneys that each make in an hour what most working people make in a week. I’m telling y’all, it’s sabotage.
“why do so many people believe in conspiracies”
“Well, to understand that, you have let me tell you about how The System is designed to replace education with propaganda.”