Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-11-07
Books mentioned on CLASSIC: Conspiracies That Turned Out To Be True
Often in the mainstream media the term "conspiracy theory" is used as a way of dismissing a claim or idea immediately -- and it's a technique that works more often than you might think.
Ben Bowlin discussed 1984 by George Orwell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel that explores totalitarianism, surveillance, state control, and the manipulation of truth.
Discussed“originally this was seen as the classic conspiratorial belief someone who had maybe read 1984 a few times too many and became paranoid and they became assured that the government was watching them”
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