New conspiracism is monologic and untethered to shared facts and experience

Evidence

Conspiracist fabulations have a disorienting effect on many who encounter them. What is responsible for this is the renunciation of the shared realm of facts and experience, which leaves them untethered to the world. Put simply, conspiracism pays no fealty to the common world. We have noted the self-sealing quality and resistance to contrary facts and arguments that characterize conspiracists, as well as the way they communicate their own understanding of things in the form of bare assertion. The new conspiracism is monologic, not dialogic. Or, in other terms, the new conspiracists are transmitters, not receivers. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 279

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the communicative signature of the new conspiracism as monologic bare assertion - transmitters, not receivers.
• XREF: connects to: Inclusive conspiracies that include nearly everyone are a growing logical endpoint of conspiratorial thinking — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 358; A new conspiracism form drops explanation and aims at disorientation. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 49; New and classic conspiracism share urgency but differ fundamentally. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 51 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• New conspiracism drops explanation and evidence in favor of bare assertion #corroborates (0.95) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 14
• New conspiracism dissolves shared perceptions of political reality #expands (0.92) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 373
• New conspiracism abandons evidence while classic conspiracism theorizes it #expands (0.90)
• New conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory in kind #expands (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 185