El pensamiento conspiranoico

Where does conspiracy thinking come from? Why are so many people convinced that a small and powerful group of people run the world in secret and against the interests of ordinary people? What reason do we have to believe that civilization as we know it is on the brink of collapse and that a new world order is approaching? Is Bill Gates to blame for everything that happens on our planet? For Noel Ceballos, conspiranoia is a paranoid framework with which to face an increasingly complex and chaotic world. A magic formula with which to reorder the daily informative cacophony until finding a satisfactory narrative. But the current conspiracy theories are not new, but mere updates of very elaborate falsehoods or gross lies? With the appearance of truth? that have been circulating in Western societies for centuries. From the French Revolution to the coronavirus, through the Illuminati, UFOs, the assassination of JFK, flat Earth, MK-Ultra, climate change, Facebook, 5G or the dark shadow of anti-Semitism, this book travels from the past to the present to create a kind of Unified Conspiracy Theory, always under the premise that we can discover a lot about a society if we take a look at its worst nightmares.