Edward Snowden wrote an article which the Guardian gave the above title, which in the July 1 Guardian, after it originally appeared on June 29 on Edward Snowden’s Substack as “Conspiracy: Theory and Practice—Toward a Taxonomy of Conspiracies.” In it, Snowden delves into the issue of conspiracy theories, including the following useful insight: “It took years – eight years and counting in exile – for me to realize that I was missing the point: we talk about conspiracy theories in order to avoid talking about conspiracy practices, which are often too daunting, too threatening, too total… Especially pernicious is the way that false conspiracies absolve their followers of engaging with the truth.”
Where Snowden falls short is in failing to take up the thorny issue of how Man is able to know Truth — one of the central subjects of a half-century of Lyndon LaRouche’s writings and speeches – which is the only way to sort out what is actual causality in the physical and political universe, vs. terrified pandering to unscientific “explanations.”
