La era del conspiracionismo

Among all the uncertainties of the present, a certainty makes its way: with the 21st century a new era began, the era of conspiracy. On January 6, 2021, the world was stunned to witness an event that seemed unreal: hundreds of fans carrying axes, Viking horns, baseball bats and Confederate flags stormed the US Capitol to prevent Joe Biden's victory from being proclaimed in the polls. For the author of this book, the assault on the Capitol was a turning point, the visible and disturbing result of the legitimacy and power of mobilization that the culture of lies has achieved in our society. These pages tell how millions of conspiracists can be built around the world, when a real industry of fake news and dark digital activists is combined with the personal experience of poverty and lack of opportunities to convince more and more people of unfounded lies. and defend unusual theories. With his agile and incisive prose, Ramonet argues that it is time to take seriously these intense minorities, which until recently seemed like groups of paranoid marginals and today are organized internationally, occupying positions of power without the political system finding the antibodies to fight them. Meanwhile, below, racist and violent ideas inspire the formation of militias and "justice" by their own hands. Extremism is no longer a fictional dystopia; a new era has begun.