The Politics of Cultural Despair

“As Field perceptively notes in her piece, “conspiracism…has the allure of the radical and of the forbidden”—conspiracism, like its cousin despair, is attractive—it makes one feel special. It is romanticism without the romance. As such, the politics of cultural despair has temptations for people in all social conditions.”

Wow, this piece puts into words so well things I've been trying to put my finger lately.