Conspiracism aims to own and impose reality on everyone

Evidence

Conspiracism assaults knowledge-producing institutions in ways that are both destructive to democracy and personally disorienting, for, ultimately, conspiracists alter what it means to know something: they claim to own reality, and they seek (with growing success) to impose their reality on everyone. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 232

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on epistemic capture and propaganda as reality-construction. Resonates with Stanley’s work on propaganda and Arendt on truth in politics. — connects to: Inclusive conspiracies that include nearly everyone are a growing logical endpoint of conspiratorial thinking — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 358; Conspiracism’s core effect on bystanders is radical disorientation over who owns reality — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 277; Conspiracism’s core political danger is its claim to own reality — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 392 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Conspiracism’s core political danger is its claim to own reality #expands (0.95) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 392
• Conspiracism’s core effect on bystanders is radical disorientation over who owns reality #corroborates (0.90) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 277
• Lie-telling presupposes a shared reality that conspiracism rejects #corroborates (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 162
• Conspiracism offers greater coherence than reality by excluding chance and ambiguity #expands (0.70) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 117