This started with a documentary about cults, and a cracked.com article comparing conspiracy theories and cults...and they're not far off. Both cults conspiracy theories will isolate their adepts from the World by claiming everyone else is evil and lying and impure (just listen to how the phrase "mainstream media" is used by both the far left and far right) and will flatter them by saying that they have The Truth and that everyone else is naive and stupid.

They also use the phrase "google it!" as an easy answer when anyone asks them for proof of conspiracy even though you can find anything and its opposite on google. The search bar was first intended to say "Protocols of the Elders of Sion" in reference to an antisemitic piece of junk that was debunked in the 1920s and that the far right still takes seriously!

I also watched a lovely Ted Ed animation on what "Orwellian" really means and then Twitter struck me as a formidable example of newspeak: short messages, no room for nuance, you either agree with a short, punchy composite word or disagree with it, even though just one word does not a political or social message make.

It was ok as entertainment, but when you consider the place that thing, that was conceived as entertainment, has taken in our political lives...