Conspiracy Theories – The Pocket Essential Guide by Robin Ramsay
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
“Conspiracies are real and by no means necessarily the product of a paranoid imagination. If this little book has a single message, this is it. But, as the Kennedy assassination showed, there is not just one big over-arching conspiracy. There are many smaller conspiracies, some of them competing, interlocking, overlapping…”
Insightful little book that shows how conspiracies are run-of-the-mill popular politics. Research into them, however, is undermined by the “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” stereotype which has been fueled by deliberate government disinformation and distraction tactics (such as alien abductions and a great part of the UFO conspiracy paraphilology: who’s going to care about the real and very obvious conspiracies when there’s aliens out to get us?), propaganda and your standard simplistic, absurd, “over-arching” conspiracy theories: Jewish bankers, Illuminati, Masons etc.
