They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent — The Trust Trap
What happens when justified distrust becomes the raw material for manipulation?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior as our lens, this episode investigates how institutional betrayal, elite impunity, information disorder, and conspiracy culture can reinforce one another.
Kendzior argues that conspiracy theories cannot be understood simply as irrational beliefs appearing from nowhere. Historical deception, corruption, institutional abandonment, and failures of…
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