Conspiracy Thinking Is Flourishing. Some of Our Most Popular Franchises Arent Helping.

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  • Cameron Kunzelman's new book, Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin’s Creed, argues that the series is the modern entertainment ecosystem in miniature, franchised to hell and shot through with conspiracy theory.
  • He argues that following just about any modern franchise, from Star Wars to Love Is Blind, has quite a bit in common with being a conspiracy theorist.
  • "We’re living in a moment of profound conspiracy right now.
  • Just a good old-fashioned Philip K. Dick-ian kind of moment," he says.
For nearly 20 years, the Assassins Creed video games have presented themselves as sprawling works of historical fiction. They cast players as noble assassins during big inflection points in historyth [+11696 chars]

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