Woo Woo Brain
In the NYT, Ross Douthat reviews a book about the nutcase brigade. The conspiracy theorists who seem to be outnumbering the normative like a toxic wave. The internet doesn’t help: meme=dumb mostly; the internet is a perfect medium for me-too-ism. How the cranks find each other is something of a mystery, or it had been, until the internet made it easy.
From JFK assassination fantasies (hello, Ollie Stone), to 9/11 conspiracy crazies — all political persuasions are infected, at their tattered, stinking edges.
… the ideological fringes are forever blurring into one another: Pat Buchanan can sound a lot like Gore Vidal, “truthers” and “birthers” often share common fixations, and both the far left and far right seem equally inclined to circle around, eventually, to pointing fingers at the Jews.
