Douglas Giles, PhD
1 min readJul 7, 2023

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The article to which I linked is a direct answer to your legitimate criticism. You are free to engage with or dismiss the source material, but that article is itself a legitimate criticism of a common psychological tendency directly relevant to your earlier statement.

As for Ranciere, Althusser, and Engles,there are significant differences between their analytical critiques of social structures and what I am describing as conspiracy theories. You gave no description of why or how you think the critique in my article applies to those three in particular. But I can point directly to the fact that the critiques offered by those three philosophers do not at all fit with my definition of the three dimensions of a conspiracy theory, and my descriptions of con(spiracy) artists do not at all apply to them, or any other similar critique of power hierarchies.

P.S. — Medium’s stats show you spent a whole 16 seconds on my article, which perhaps explains your lack of understanding of what it said.

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Douglas Giles, PhD
Douglas Giles, PhD

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