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Orphangelical

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.”

Oscar Wilde

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They fail to alter their views to fit the facts. Instead, they alter facts to fit their views.

Dr Who.

The Epistemology of Conspiracy

Dgg

Understanding the Politics of Polarity

Something that may be of interest from my reading table…

“How Conspiracy Theorists Argue: Epistemic capital in the QAnon social media sphere.“

Source:

  • Religious Studies, Open University, Gifford, UK

  • School of Religion/Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I like that the perspective is international … observing the US, particularly.

Addressing:

  • How power is related to different kinds of knowledge claims in the far-right conspiratorial milieu

  • What the role of different epistemic modes is in how authority is established in right-leaning conspiratorial narratives

What I found important:

  • The nexus with religion, particularly Evangelicalism

  • **Fully, attributed, organized, history of Qanon**

I see:

  • Inferences of how conspiracy compels people into an orbit of authoritarianism