The Conspiratorial Style in Pretty Much Everything

So I'm in one of those weird in-between-stages where I just went Through It brain-wise and am now starting to wake back up and trying to assemble all the obsessive lines of thought that I acquired during that time into something coherent. I'm still stewing over John Brown/remembering America the correct way/Captain Ahab megalomaniac archetype stuff and I'm reading again finally soooo ... anticipating extensive Thoughts in the next few weeks hopefully. This should really be a "what I've been reading" entry honestly but I've been following the aforementioned pattern for the last few weeks --> morosely rotate from one room to the other and grab whatever's near, read 10 pages, get distracted, wander off, repeat-- so I haven't actually finished anything in a while. So instead, here's whatever this is (fair warning--there is a Point here, but I don't think I get there. true braindump content below).

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