This thesis is crap and is blind to much bigger conspiracy theories that have been going on for thousands of years and that still have much stronger holds on societies than anti mask conspiracy theories. Modern social media did not cause them to grow to what they were since it did not exist when they were created and grew.
Christianity: Jesus died and came back to life. He died for your sins. You are going to hell if you don’t repent your sins. Please give the church 10%.
Buddhism: You are going to endlessly suffer. Please contribute to the temple to support the monks. Please pay monks to bless funerals.
Hinduism: You are born into a caste and stuck in it. You are shit and untouchable. If you touch me or try to marry my daughter, I will kill you.
The reality is that you have systems and people that prey on human weaknesses for time immemorial. It is much more interesting to examine how those technologies/systems operate.
Free speech was protection against conspiracy theories and now the author wants to ban free speech to protect us from conspiracy theories. Sheer nonsense.
>The reality is that you have systems and people that prey on human weaknesses for time immemorial. It is much more interesting to examine how those technologies/systems operate.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Michel Foucault's critique of historiography
Next, we'll examine Western notions of 'progress', rationalization, and humanism as being parsable along the same lines
Christianity: Jesus died and came back to life. He died for your sins. You are going to hell if you don’t repent your sins. Please give the church 10%.
Buddhism: You are going to endlessly suffer. Please contribute to the temple to support the monks. Please pay monks to bless funerals.
Hinduism: You are born into a caste and stuck in it. You are shit and untouchable. If you touch me or try to marry my daughter, I will kill you.
The reality is that you have systems and people that prey on human weaknesses for time immemorial. It is much more interesting to examine how those technologies/systems operate.