Bonus Sample: A Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Matthew debriefs after the Mike Rothschild interview, looking at QAnon’s “Conspiracy Theory of Everything” as a hyperobject and spiritual dilemma.Show Notes‘A reckoning for our species’: the philosopher prophet of the AnthropoceneConversations with Cornel West | Glenn Loury, Cornel West & Teodros Kiros | The Glenn Show -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Matthew here from the Conspirituality Podcast team.
0:12.7	The following is a sample of the bonus episode we produce every week for our Patreon subscribers.
0:19.0	You can support our work and have full access to bonus episodes and other premium content
0:23.8	by subscribing for as little as $5 a month at patreon.com slash Conspirituality.
0:31.2	Thanks for listening and your support, which keeps us ad-free and editorially independent.
0:38.0	A conspiracy theory of everything.
0:42.1	Hey everybody, this isn't a big new research bonus episode but rather a taking stock or
0:49.7	reflection type episode that marks what I think is a significant moment in the history
0:55.2	of this podcast.
0:57.7	As you know, our guest this week was Mike Rothschild and you heard us enthusiastically
1:03.9	gush over his book.
1:06.0	I hope you consider getting it.
1:08.2	It's really good.
1:10.7	And I wanted to take the time to explore some of the larger questions that we couldn't
1:17.0	quite get to but I think are pertinent to the project of this podcast.
1:24.2	These are large questions.
1:26.8	Some of them may even transcend journalism, maybe even the podcast form.
1:33.6	Specifically I'm going to look at Mike's framing of QAnon as a conspiracy theory of everything
1:40.3	as something that has a totalizing or spiritual dimension to it.
1:45.4	I'm going to read some quotes from his book that we didn't have time to address in the
1:48.7	episode and I'll also look at some of the linguistic issues within QAnon that reinforce
1:55.6	that spiritual dimension.
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