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Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos: Birds Aren't Real (AudiobookFormat, Pan Macmillan Australia)

The true story of the greatest conspiracy in U.S. history - and how to fight …

If this book wasn’t under the “comedy” section you’d could easily mistake this book as only encouraging conspiracy culture. 🙄

The fact this book seems to be adapted for audiobook and has a few witty one-liners don’t really make up for the fact I was hoping for a book about the inner working of the “birds aren’t real” conspiracy. 😫

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Birds Aren't Real is such an insane piece of multimodal performance art, and I love how it broadly counterprotests conspiracists. It reminds me of The Church of the SubGenius- a postmodern reaction to the rise of evangelicalism and the new age movement in the 70s

The evangelicals managed to elect US president Jimmy Carter. I wonder if the throughline is the political power of voter blocks with a non-rigid network of related beliefs, or just how fun they are to satirise