The idea that conspiracies can't exist is a ridiculous thing. I participated in a worldwide conspiracy

to convert the entire world to evangelical Christianity. And like I said, you don't need

micromanaged levels and you don't have to imagine some person sitting at the top twirling their

mustache, you know, and directing everybody

at every level for this to happen. You just need common attention, you know, a common, implicit

and sometimes explicit recognition that we have something in common, a goal in common.

This is Jonathan Peugeot.

Welcome to the symbolic world.

Thank you. So for those of you who have seen, I put out a video with Mary Harrington talking about the often mythological imaging of conspiracy theory and how we can often see through some of the

fairy tale motifs or some of the story motifs that you find in the conspiracy theories to find

a nugget hidden behind it, which can help us understand, you know, what is happening in the world,

that it's not completely arbitrary the way that these stories

show up and how they do manifest a deep distrust for the authorities. And they also often manifest

some aspects of how that distrust, you know, based in actions that the elites or the governments

have on us, contain patterns of truth in them.

But I also wanted to be careful that people don't think that conspiracies are impossible

because there is a very strange moment right now in culture where it becomes almost impossible

to identify someone acting against us.

And as soon as we do, we are accused of being a conspiracy theorist.

In some ways, the word conspiracy theorist has become a slander that we give to anybody

who seems to suspect the official narrative that suspects what the governments are telling us.

And so the word conspiracy theorist has become a propaganda tool for people in power to prevent us

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