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Field Notes examines how people make meaning when trust breaks down, and why extraordinary beliefs can begin to feel plausible in ordinary life.
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Why Conspiracy Beliefs Feel Like Home (opens the original)
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The Conspiracists has been out for six months, and I keep coming back to the question at the center of the book: what do conspiracy communities give people beyond the beliefs themselves? Certainty, purpose, identity, belonging. January 6 was one outcome of that world, but it was never the whole story.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YX-1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2
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