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Who runs the world? Most of us wonder that at times. Is there a mysterious “They,” a group of secret conspirators who manipulate world events? Almost as soon as we ask the question, we dismiss it as absurd. We are taught to believe that the world works in more complex and subtle ways. This book is about a large number of people who reject this view. They have taken to an extreme the desire to find connections between events, to find an undisputable cause for every effect. They have a deep-seated suspicion that someone is responsible for the world’s problems: Communists, Jews, Catholics, bankers, intellectuals, secular humanists—or, simply, Satan. To rationalize their fear and hatred they build elaborate systems – parodies of reason – straining to explain all of the world’s troubles as part of a conspiracy. The purpose of this book is to demystify. At the root of even the strangest fantasy there may lie isolated seeds of truth. By understanding how they can be rearranged, reinterpreted, and configured into weapons against perceived enemies, perhaps we can learn the dangers of seeing the world through what William Blake called “mind-forged manacles.” Winner of the 1984 Special Achiev

Who reads Architects of fear : conspiracy theories and paranoia in American politics?

Author

George Johnson

Publisher

Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher ; Boston: Distributed by Houghton Mifflin

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874772753

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.88 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14