Following each event, one or more characters are brought to the state before conspiracy begins to emerge: anti-paranoia, the most frightening state of all. The state where we realize that, for all the machinations we may attribute to “Them,” “They” are nothing but a hypothetical posit, no more real than phlogiston or ether, to wrap around the uncontrolled chaos that may bear down on us at any time. That gaping void of anti-paranoia—the loss of all sense in the world—is not only what drives conspiracy theories, but also the conspiracies themselves. Both are attempts to exert control over the world and provide linear explanation where none exists: even Fresnei’s “Cosmic Fascist” is just one such posit, while the machinations of supposedly powerful men are merely, in the words of V’s Fausto, “metaphors devised to veil the world that was.”
Mein Blog befasst sich in einem umfassenden Sinn mit dem Verhältnis von Wissen, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Ein besonderes Augenmerk richte ich dabei auf die Aktivitäten des Medien- und Dienstleistungskonzern Bertelsmann und der Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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