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conspiracies of emotional laziness in feeling empowerless The thing about words like ideology or even narrative now, is the sense that some forces control us through them. For some among us, when a light goes off in someone’s head, when a truth/story is revealed/explained, they reject the world. But still they seek to world this feeling. So they find companions who enjoy meeting and…

We read. Douglas, Mary, and Steven Ney. 1998. Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences, The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy. Berkeley : New York: University of California Press ; Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-520-20752-3 Douglas, Mary. 1996. Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste. London: SAGE publications. This deals with the changes in the ritualistic use of conspiracy theories…

In part 1 or ‘Do it for the house' I discussed a narcissist who did really well out of a working bee or two, which he advertised as “doing it for the house". This improved the property before he sold the house, on the back of unpaid labour, other peoples' tools and skills. He just happened to own it when…