![]() ![]() Growing popular anger in the South and an overwhelming desire for reunification triggered the invasion of the South by the North in 1950. Extract transcript, ‘Diary about North Korea’. I think a better definition of a conspiracy theory might be: the attribution of deliberate agency to something that is more likely to be accidental or unintended.ĭOCUMENT INSERT. For the US historian Richard Hofstadter, on the other hand, writing in the early 1960s, what distinguished the true ‘paranoid’ conspiracy theory was its scale, not that ‘its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a “vast” or “gigantic” conspiracy as the motive force of historical events. The American scholar and author of two books about conspiracy theories, Daniel Pipes, argues that, in essence, a conspiracy theory is simply a conspiracy that never happened, that it is ‘the nonexistent version of a conspiracy’. There’s always a corrupting power at work.ĭOCUMENT INSERT. ![]() ![]() The Mob worry about America losing control. The Cold Six Thousand is fat and deranged. But it isn’t.Īmerican Tabloid was sharp and taught. The Cold Six Thousand is the sequel to American Tabloid but it isn’t a repeat. I figured The Cold Six Thousand was fucked up. ![]()
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