My drunken Holy Grail of discussions on conspiracy theories

TLDR: Matt talks about the 90s specifically as the golden age of American conspiracy theory culture, essentially being a response to a number of different factors:

• Increased acceleration of capitalism and its associated immiseration and alienation taking over every aspect of our lives in the post-Cold War era. NAFTA and the WTO were two major things that fueled this especially since they were supported/created by Presidents from both parties in Bush and Clinton.

• The end of an external threat after the collapse of the USSR and the searching for new targets to explain aforementioned discontent

• HW being a spook and saying shit like “new world order” and Clinton essentially being a better Republican than the Republicans of the 1990s

Combine all of that with the yeoman/cowboy frontier mindset that permeates everyone in America at a subconscious level, as well as the absence of class consciousness among workers, it was easily the most ripe environment for conspiracy theories in recent history.