Special Articles — The Conspiracy Guy
Information Cycle of Violence
by Robert Blaskiewicz
The Conspiracy Guy
January 11, 2013
New media, especially YouTube, has changed the public’s relationship to news and information in a way that has made conspiracy theories not only more prevalent but also a much more participatory pursuit. For this reason, it is vital that any student of conspiracy theory attain some degree of media literacy. A good place to start is with the information cycle.
Enemies, Mostly Domestic
by Robert Blaskiewicz
The Conspiracy Guy
September 17, 2012
The last month has seen a disturbing number of high-profile mass shootings, and these events, when filtered through the conspiratorial worldview, become distorted and magnified in strange and interesting ways.
Tim McVeigh’s Must-Read List: The Turner Diaries
by Robert Blaskiewicz
The Conspiracy Guy
June 20, 2012
Demographic and social changes, augmented by an entrenched and politically active nativist movement that targets illegal immigrants, should encourage our awareness of the ideological fountain from which the racist subset of these militias draw, including The Turner Diaries.
Out of Mind? Out of Sight!
by Robert Blaskiewicz
The Conspiracy Guy
May 17, 2012
The source of the dread, foreboding, or control that conspiracy theorists sense is often outside the range of the normal experience of everyday life, which in no way diminishes the sense of a real threat. Therefore, they locate the locus of power just beyond the normal citizen's perceptual range. . . .
The Denver International Airport Conspiracy
by Robert Blaskiewicz
The Conspiracy Guy
April 11, 2012
Somehow, the conspiratorial world has convinced itself that, to use Richard Dreyfus’s phrase as he sculpts his mashed potatoes into a replica of the Devil’s Tower, the Denver International Airport “means something.” What exactly it means is unclear, but conspiracy theorists know its meaning is sinister.
Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures: A Classic American Conspiracy Theory
by Robert Blaskiewicz
The Conspiracy Guy
February 27, 2012
We have a long history of being afraid of the wrong people: the Masons, the Illuminati, the Commies, those cunning homosexuals—all of these groups at some point or another have been identified as the enemy, the embodiment of evil that would tear the heart out of America and deliver it to perdition.
