thanks for your thoughts. i detested the eisenstein article, though he is a great writer. any kind of middle-ground relativism on this topic, while i get the appeal, is wrong headed. he also kinda minimizes the stakes and takes it into the abstract realm and mythology —then implying that conspiracy theories are a healthy self-corrective (if i remember, i have read a lot since then) as if they are an immune response to an oppressive and corrupt society. no. the antidote to actual corruption and oppression and real conspiracies is not conspiracy theory style reasoning. it is good investigative journalism, evidence, facts, reason; actual skepticism, not the paranoid confirmation bias of the conspiracist —that’s just destructive and wasteful. oh, and i am not writing for an audience, i writing about what i see.