Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

by Derek Beres

In reality, the leader is much less a visionary than a DJ, sampling and mixing tight hooks and dope beats—not necessarily out of any love for or commitment to the artists or their work, but to keep everyone dancing as fast as they can.

Back in 1990, the American internet ethics lawyer Mike Godwin proposed Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies, writing in Wired: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

Humility is a form of spirituality, too.

Conspirituality hacks the zeitgeist because it offers high-calorie, low-nutritional food to a hungry world.