All Embracing But Underwhelming…

No, I am not ‘jumping the shark’ so early on; I’ve just read an essay from MIT’s ‘Mediations’ magazine (Volume 1, Number 1, to be precise) entitled ‘Zoolander as a Parable and Parody of the Classic Conspiracy Narrative and Contemporary Western Popular Culture’ (Author: Jason Dick) It looked as if it could be interesting. I [...]

‘The tendency to suspect that conspiracies are behind events cannot be explained as a consequence of repressed homosexuality to the extent that this theory relies on Frued’s examination of Schreber’s case.’-A Psycho-Analytic Peek at Conspiracy, Buffalo Law Review, 1970, 20, 1, Fall, p. 248”The tendency to suspect that conspiracies are behind events cannot be explained [...]

‘My reaction, when I first began research assassination conspiracy theories, was probably a typical one: “Doesn’t anybody just die?” I’ve heard conspiracy theories for every dead person from J. Edgar Hoover to Lenny Bruce. My instinctive reaction was always if not to scoff, then at least to look askance. But far be it from me [...]