Conspiracy and Democracy I: What is a Conspiracy Theory? What is Conspiracy Mentality?

[@Mix1mum]

That is a bold first 2min opening. That's why we love you. It'd be freakin rad if you rode conspiracy theories as a vehicle to explain recent histories, which, probably world over, aren't taught to our graduating youth. I know when I graduated in 99 I knew basically nothing of postwar history, not just of the western world, Asia rebuilding? Africa history? Whaaa? I latched onto politics when everyone else latched onto football teams. I can go in depth on 90s politics onward because I've read it in newspapers everyday without fail, but nuance around Nixon passing the EPA act? Loooools. My own countries history, huge blind spot coming into adulthood. Which, to be clear, I felt betrayed by. Because it IS a fucking betrayel, thrown out and abandoned into the world. We need to do better as a society. Even now, in my early 40s, my knowledge of world history I feel is playing catch up, and if I had a love of political science, let me tell you how i feel about geopolitics. Keep doing you Blunt

[@drblunt]

Thanks BVG! This is a great idea. I should talk to my colleagues in history to see if anyone could help me do justice to all the under examined history of the 20th century.

[@marcosnobuhara1126]

4:39 omg so funny

[@drblunt]

Living out my secret dream of being a comedian instead of an academic.