While Jones-style theorizing "engages in a sort of detective work," write political scientists Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead in A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, the "new conspiracism is something different. There is no punctilious demand for proofs, no exhaustive amassing of evidence, no dots revealed to form a pattern, no close examination of the operators plotting in the shadows. The new conspiracism dispenses with the burden of explanation. Instead, we have innuendo and verbal gesture ... conspiracy without the theory."You can RTWT here.
In place of theory, however, is community. Conspiracism now is a group project — we see this clearly with QAnon — and the success of Libs of TikTok reflects that shift.
Nine out of ten dentists advocate flossing for healthy teeth.
— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) May 3, 2022
The tenth is doing the Rogan/Jones/Carlson circuit to push back against the propaganda of Big Floss and hawk his organic anti-cavity pills.
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