Among the Truthers
by Kay, JonathanFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-05-17
Publisher(s): Harpercollins
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Summary
From 9/11 conspiracy theorists and UFO obsessives to the cult of Ayn Rand and Birther crusaders, America is suffering from an explosion in post-rationalist ideological movements. In Among the Truthers, journalist Jonathan Kay offers a thoughtful and sobering look at how social networking and Web-based video sharing have engendered a flourishing of new conspiracism. Kay details the sociological profiles of ten brands of modern conspiracists-the Failed Historian, the Mid-Life Crack-Up, the Damaged Survivor, the Campus Revolutionary, the Stoner, the Clinical Case, the Puzzle Solver, the Christian Doomsayer, the Cosmic Voyager, and the Egomaniac-in a compelling exploration of America's departure from reason and what it means for the very future of rational discourse as the nation steps further into the 21st century.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction: Stumbling on the Truthers | p. 1 |
| Don't Call Them ôNutbarsö | p. 4 |
| Some Caveats | p. 19 |
| The Truth Movement and Its Ancestors | |
| American Conspiracism: A Brief History | p. 25 |
| Programmed for Conspiracy | p. 25 |
| Populism and Paranoia: How Politics Shaped American Conspiracism | p. 33 |
| The Men in Black: How Technology Shaped American Conspiracism | p. 51 |
| The Emergence of ôFlowchart Conspiracismö | p. 57 |
| Warrant for Genocide, Blueprint for Paranoia | p. 65 |
| A Dark Fairy Tale | p. 67 |
| Singularity | p. 71 |
| Boundless Evil | p. 76 |
| Incumbency | p. 81 |
| Greed | p. 83 |
| Cui Bono? | p. 87 |
| Hypercompetence | p. 89 |
| Covering Their Tracks | p. 93 |
| False Flags and Lava Lamps: The Birth of a Conspiracy Movement | p. 99 |
| Ken Jenkins: Videographer, Flower Child, Truther | p. 99 |
| Operation Northwoods and Its Legacy | p. 106 |
| Project for the New American Century: A Modern Northwoods | p. 116 |
| ôShow Me the Birth Certificateö: Conspiracism in the Age of Obama | p. 121 |
| Joseph Farah: Birther Extraordinaire | p. 121 |
| Drinking Tea in Nashville | p. 124 |
| Enter the False Prophet | p. 135 |
| Glenn Beck and the New Populism | p. 138 |
| Meet the Truthers | |
| Why They Believe: A Psychological Field Guide to Conspiracists | p. 149 |
| The Midlife Crisis Case | p. 151 |
| The Failed Historian | p. 159 |
| The Damaged Survivor | p. 170 |
| The Cosmic Voyager | p. 179 |
| The Clinical Conspiracist | p. 183 |
| The Crank | p. 187 |
| The Evangelical Doomsayer | p. 196 |
| The Firebrand | p. 199 |
| The Church of Conspiracism | p. 205 |
| Enter Satan | p. 205 |
| The Devil's Legacy | p. 211 |
| Lives of the Prophets | p. 215 |
| The Cultic Milieu | p. 218 |
| Accessories to Trutherdom | |
| Democratizing Paranoia: How the Web Revolutionized Conspiracism | p. 227 |
| The Legacy of Flight 800 | p. 227 |
| Muckraking 2.0 | p. 230 |
| Through the Internet's Looking Glass | p. 238 |
| The Revolution Will Be Televised | p. 250 |
| History Belongs to the YouTube Victors | p. 258 |
| Tin-Foil Mortarboards: Conspiracism's Ivy League Enablers | p. 261 |
| Jacques Derrida's Hall of Mirrors | p. 261 |
| Among the Antiracists | p. 273 |
| Lessons from the Yale Law Journal | p. 279 |
| The Protocols Revisited: The New Face of Anti-Semitic Conspiracism | p. 285 |
| Showdown in the Bowery | p. 285 |
| Conspiracism's Hateful Sidekick | p. 289 |
| A New Home on the Left | p. 294 |
| The 9/11 Effect | p. 300 |
| Jews Drift Right | p. 305 |
| Confronting Conspiracism | p. 309 |
| A Pound of Cure | p. 309 |
| An Ounce of Prevention | p. 316 |
| Index | p. 329 |
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