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Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a challenge for creating 'fan fiction about reality'
Next week, a tiny group of researchers will feverishly devote themselves to unmasking the shadowy forces that control the world. Thirty days later, they will reveal a series of shocking conspiracies that only the most perceptive — some might even say paranoid — sleuths could possibly uncover. And if they succeed in their mission, nobody will believe a word of it.
The project is called National Conspiracy Writing Month, an unofficial spinoff of the long-running National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) challenge. Where NaNoWriMo requires participants to write a 50,000-word novel, the inaugural NaCoWriMo asks them to produce a "deep, viable, and complete conspiracy theory." Its creator Tim Hwang hopes these fake plots can illuminate a pervasive cultural phenomenon — helping both participants and spectators understand how conspiracy theories emerge. He just hopes people don't take them too seriously.
[...] NaCoWriMo is designed to explore the point where logic goes haywire, so a lot of these links will be fanciful — Hwang, for example, plans to expose mysterious ties between American politics and Wrestlemania. (Given Trump's history in pro wrestling, it's not as far-fetched as it sounds.) But the project also raises a strange possibility: what if somebody uncovers a real conspiracy?
[...] Ultimately, Hwang thinks of conspiracies as an extension of our natural pattern-finding impulses — not just a political enterprise, but part of the same basic human urge that produces pareidolia and TV fan theories. "I think actually what's interesting is that the origin of it is investigation, it's trying to connect dots. And in a lot of cases, we really admire people who are able to find connections between things that other people have not seen before," he says. "'Conspiracy theory' has a certain kind of baggage about politics and sinister doings and smoke-filed rooms. But I think in some ways, the cognitive exercise of it has a lot of parallels with a lot of things."
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @09:01AM (6 children)
Hmm, I have to ponder this deeply:
Trump's Razor (based on Hanlon's):
Close?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 28 2019, @01:43PM (5 children)
Speak Loudly and carry a Tiny Stick. Wield it with tiny hands.
According to Stormy, it is a misshapen mushroom, not a stick.
I find it informative how one can be called a successful businessman when every single business has failed. King of debt, king of bankruptcy, etc. Can't even make a profit on a casino where the house has a guaranteed edge.
When American lenders no longer will even touch your bankruptcy ridden name with a ten foot pole, the Russians say "come right in! Let's talk."
But if you disagree, then, it's all just a conspiracy. A witch hunt!
We now live in a post-Truth era.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @02:43PM (3 children)
Uh huh... Rich guy having sex with models and porn stars who got the most powerful job on the planet is actually secretly a stupid loser. If only we could get the magic documents to prove it then everyone would see how smart we were to have known this top secret info.
Tldr, Islam is RIGHT about women
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 28 2019, @02:54PM (2 children)
I don't think it is a secret.
Proof: tweets, and live speeches.
Also, that should be stupid illiterate loser. With a tiny misshapen mushroom according to one of those he slept with.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @05:56PM (1 child)
It is hilarious that you don't realize how pitiful you sound. Trump has singlehandedly reduced your thought processes to a 5th grade level.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday October 29 2019, @02:04AM
yeah, he is pretty good at bringing people down to his level.
But really, fifth grade would be an improvement.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 1) by Peristaltic on Monday October 28 2019, @05:42PM