L'opium des imbéciles : Essai sur la question complotiste - Rudy Reichstadt
- In French. First published in 2019 (e-book).
“Conspiracy is linked to our sad passions: egocentrism, misanthropy, laziness, cowardice, fear, jealousy, resentment. Whether it comes to heal a narcissistic wound that is still open, that it tells a story that we cannot understand, that it serves to hurt or defame enemies, its expansion is not only the symptom of 'a crisis of liberal democracy, it is also a factor of aggravation in its own right. On the black market for questionable ideas, conspiracy theories are exchanged with the same frenzy as superstitions, pseudo-sciences, new spiritualities and radical ideologies.
“Conspiracy is linked to our sad passions: egocentrism, misanthropy, laziness, cowardice, fear, jealousy, resentment. Whether it comes to heal a narcissistic wound that is still open, that it tells a story that we cannot understand, that it serves to hurt or defame enemies, its expansion is not only the symptom of 'a crisis of liberal democracy, it is also a factor of aggravation in its own right. On the black market for questionable ideas, conspiracy theories are exchanged with the same frenzy as superstitions, pseudo-sciences, new spiritualities and radical ideologies.
-> "An eye opener essay, sharing how the Masses may diverge from rational thinking toward a more egoistic one, yet scary at that... and push for hidden agendas to win..."