that simple move—cleaving good and evil neatly into two separate camps—gave us the seeds of late nineteenth-century mystical New Thought, which begat Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking, which begat the New Age, which kind of brings us to our present Conspirituality moment, where growing numbers of us are stitching together outlandish mythologies in place of meaningful responses to a world going off the rails.
