To borrow a line from Zero to One, to believe in conspiracies is an effective truth. To dismiss anything as impossible is as well. I said in the introduction that we might live in a world of too few conspiracies, not too many. We have plenty of opinions—plenty of histrionic complaints about how terrible and awful and stuck we are—but not enough people with the patience, coordination, and ambition to do anything about it. We used to throw bombs, now we throw tantrums—or worse, tweets. In ancient times it was the foolish sophists who believed that every problem could be talked through, that the
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