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    Re: The view from the bridge Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on August 18, 2020, 8:17 am, in reply to "Re: The view from the bridge"

    The author of The View From the Bridge, Robin Ramsay, concurs.

    'Do we need this?
    The Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories (eds. Michael Butter and Peter Knight) is £152 for the hardback and £32 for the ebook. Which makes it by far the most expensive book I have ever handled. For that ridiculous sum you get 48 essays, 650 pages of text (albeit nicely printed and bound) and
    another 40 or so of notes and index. I didn’t ask for this book and I haven’t read much of it. Conspiracy theories were mildly interesting 25 years or so ago, in the period after the TV programme The X-Files presented a selection of
    American conspiracy theories to a world-wide audience. Since when their growth through social media used by the intellectually incompetent has been depressing and boring. But then people believe all kinds of stupid stuff. Nearly half the US population apparently believes the Bible is the word of God. That people are extending their capacity for irrational belief into new areas may be of interest to sociologists, social psychologists and historians of ideas, but it
    isn’t to me. However, you may find this enormous collection of essays more appealing than I do. See for yourself: some of the book can be read on-line. 1
    Co-editor Peter Knight’s name may be familiar. I wrote this 17 years ago. '

    https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster80/lob80-view-from-the-bridge.pdf

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