Why did the artist choose to portray the southern pacific railroad’s monopoly as an octopus?7/15/2023 ![]() ![]() The “conspiracy theory of society,” for him, was the idea that complex social phenomena can and should be directly traced to agents - “men or groups of men” - who conspired to bring them about. ![]() Two decades before the phrase “conspiracy theory” rode the wake of JFK’s assassination into public consciousness, Popper framed the concept in a more general sociological sense. One of the classic throw-downs against modern conspiracism comes from Karl Popper in his book The Open Society and its Enemies, published just after the second World War. ![]()
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