Collin G Brooke

As Gilroy-Ware puts it, “Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy and justifiable political instinct: suspicion.”

The hijackers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have acted as if the idea that self-government depends on people being able to count on independent providers of information is a quaint relic and that the new media channels present new opportunities that creative political operatives must seize.

depend on an accurate apprehension of the context

everything some humans created can be changed by other humans.

Much of our capacity to ‘use’ the world depends, not on an attempt to open ourselves as much as possible to apprehending whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, but instead on apprehending whatever I have brought into being for myself, my representation of it. This is the remit of the left hemisphere, and would appear to require a selectiv

irony: the trope that derives its effect of appositiveness to the description of things by playing upon the relation of opposition.

The expansion of our technological reach is not increasing our self-efficacy, but undermining it.

There are three major psychological weapons that combatants often transfer into culture war: scapegoating, deception, and violent threats.

Not knowing and not being able to know is the meaning of irony today. Not saying or doing the opposite of what one means, but refusing to reveal whether or not one really means not to mean it.