Conspiracy culture is a self-respect lunge against humiliating open plutocracy.

Evidence

Knowing that this kind of unmasked plutocracy can take root in democratic societies without so much as an effort to hide it is like being forced to watch your spouse cheat on you when that is not your kink. Maybe we should see conspiracy culture—with its theater of uncovering things that are not hidden—as some sort of twisted lunge for self-respect. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 788

Categorization

• DEFINE: Offers an inverted definition of conspiracy culture: theater of uncovering things already visible, rather than revealing hidden ones.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: is the ‘reveal the nonhidden’ framing testable against actual QAnon discourse or only rhetorical?