@cstross Conspiracy theories seek to explain injustice. (It is, axiomatically, a just world (created by a just and loving god) and they are, axiomatically, good people, so the world SHOULD be doing what they want it to do. If it doesn't, that's injustice.)
Conspiracy theories are, without exception, the product of demography that's already lost. (Often to vast impersonal forces like the electromagnetic absorption spectrum of specific gaseous molecules or just the rushing passage of time.)
@graydon "Conspiracy theories are, without exception, the product of demography that's already lost" … except the Blood Libel, and anti-semitic conspiracies in general (eg. the Protocols of the Elders of Zion).
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