Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy - Colin Dickey
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From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America’s obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power
The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, the Illuminati, and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply secret groups are conspiring to pervert the will of the people and the rule of law. We’d like to assume these panics exist only at the fringes of society, or are unique features of the internet age. But history tells us, in fact, that they are woven into the fabric of American democracy.
Cultural historian Colin Dickey has built a career studying how our most irrational beliefs reach the mainstream, why, and what they tell us about ourselves. In Under the Eye of Power , Dickey charts the history of America through its paranoias and fears of secret societies, while seeking to explain why so many people—including some of the most powerful people in the country—continue to subscribe to these conspiracy theories. Paradoxically, he finds, belief in the fantastical and conspiratorial can be more soothing than what we fear the the chaos and randomness of history, the rising and falling of fortunes in America, and the messiness of democracy. Only in seeing the cycle of this history, Dickey says, can we break it.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 3.4/5
September 14th, 2023
https://humansbefree.com/2020/11/presidents-warn-about-the-invisible-government-running-the-united-states.html
September 14th, 2023
@itxlan
You see the irony here, right? ^^
September 15th, 2023
No amount of psychologizing of people who we don’t agree with can make conspiracy theories go away. These theories exist because conspiracies exist. Their existence made it necessary to define them in law.
The irony is that the same people that harp on against their existence have their own variety of conspiracy theories. QAnon begat Blue Anon. They just don’t recognize them as such, because their paranoid theories are directed against common people, thus defending power structures rather than challenging them.
September 15th, 2023
So your incoherent, nonsensical, obvious con theories are better than THEIR incoherent, nonsensical, obvious con theories? Gotcha.
“Belief in the fantastical & conspiratorial can be more soothing than what we fear: the chaos and randomness of history, the rising & falling of fortunes in America, & the messiness of democracy. Only in seeing the cycle of this history can we break it.”
There’s something in that.
Thx, hdgdf.
December 11th, 2023
Thank you!
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