Conspiracy of the Enlightenment: Augustin Barruel and his “Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism” (pt. 1)
Branko Malić
21st Century Wire
What we nowadays call “conspiracy theory” is sometimes being refuted by simply pointing out the “fact” that people desperately need to make sense of the world, blame others for their own shortcomings, rationalize the unbearable randomness of history, etc.