A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
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What do UFO believers, Christian millennialists, and right-wing conspiracy theorists have in common? According to Michael Barkun in this fascinating yet disturbing book, quite a lot. It is well known that some Americans are obsessed with conspiracies. The Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 2001 terrorist attacks have all generated elaborate stories of hidden plots. What is far less known is the extent to which conspiracist worldviews have rece… More >>
A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
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i have not read this book…i would look at it if someone tossed it to me, but i will not go out of my way to look at it, nor would i purchase it…for the simple reason that the author,
mr. barkun, appeared on c-span, and engaged in a tag-team attack on one of the subjects of his screed, alex jones, along with the host, brian lamb…ANDDDD more importantly, he refused to appear on Jones’ show when Jones invited him to discuss what he’d written, and what he’d said…and he apparently did not even interview jones for his book, which is inexcusable negligence from someone who purports to be a scholar – or from any author for that matter…
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is just like watching the evening news you get lots of jingoism, and little in the way of factual documentation. Barkun’s chapter on Black Helicopters for instance takes the most extreme views such as linking cattle mutilations to black helicopters and does nothing to address the topic of UN Military units operating domestically within the USA. Black Helicopters operating out of Fort Hood Texas are real, yet Barkun never bothers to tell his readers that Black Helicopters operated by the UN are real, and have even been involved in law enforcement activities here in the US. Shame on Mr. Barkun for his highly distorted take on historical events and people such as the Rockerfellers, the Council on Foreign Relations (which publically states they wish to destroy the US Constitutional Government and replace it with a UN Style world Government). If you want the truth listen to Alex Jones…
Rating: 1 / 5
I wonder who is paying him off to make the statements that he makes in this book… I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone who is searching for the truth. It is the same ol’ “nothing is really wrong” mentality that most Americans have today.
Rating: 1 / 5
Like Daniel Pipes useless work (Conspiracy), this one mixes totally unrelated issues together in order to criticize socio-political critiques. For similar misinformation see Peter Knight’s “Conspiracy Culture,” which again mixes ‘aliens’ with other legitimate concerns about global power structures.
Rating: 1 / 5
I do not consider myself a conspiracy theorist, just a fact based reality observer. I would like to ask the author a question though. For all the conspiracy theorists out there, i’m sure at least SOME of them link Dick Cheney to a group trying to take over the world or whatever. Tell me this, what are the odds of him being involved with a company that has intentionally fixed (or willed, I think YOU might say) the energy prices in California sky high to make a huge profit and cause widespread recession and economic problems in parts of the state of California, thus causing all sorts of problems for the Governor of California at the time, Gray Davis (whom I despise) which led to a Republican Governor (also implicated in conspiracy theories as he had earlier shown political ambitions in a film made called Demolition Man)…and on and on and on. I guess you’d call it a conspiracy of coincidence, but not I. BTW, what is one of the number one crimes committed in the world today? Do you know? Conspiracy to committ. I don’t think things are quite as “cut and dry” as you seem to imply in your book sir.
Rating: 2 / 5