GEP Colleagues, this query isn't directly related to GEP, but I thought some of you might have good ideas. A handful of students here - often reasonably bright ones - are very immersed in conspiracy culture (9/11 Truth; Alex Jones' Prison Planet; Illuminati; Bilderberg; etc.). I suspect many of you encounter similar students. When I find myself in conversation w/these folks, they regularly rattle off extensive lists of readings, which I confess I'm not gonna read.
What I'm looking for - and hoping that some of you might know of - is some sort of article length essay that speaks directly to folks like this. One not dismissive of their concerns, but that, in a general sense, offers good reasons for being deeply skeptical of such massive, personalized, often multi-generational conspiracies, while not at all dismissing the notion that particular conspiracies, over a limited time, (say, to get us into the Iraq war) might exist and also trying to capture the critical energy that inspires these folks into a more constructive, structural analysis of power and privilege. Any suggestions? John -- John M. Meyer Professor and Chair Department of Politics Founders Hall 138 Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 USA 707.826.4497 (phone) 707.826.4496 (fax) john.me...@humboldt.edu
