Plunging Into the Abyss

As even our smartest friends fall to conspiracy fever, we have to accept it’s not about logic or politics, but addiction

Douglas Rushkoff
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8 min readJul 21, 2021

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Photo: Ludovic Toinel/Unsplash

It comes in waves. A friend here, a co-worker there, getting curious about one conspiracy theory or another until they follow one too many trailheads, and end up over the edge. It’s a casualty of living in disorienting…

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Douglas Rushkoff
GEN
Writer for

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm