Month: July 2020

@ryanliveson @CeeChampion If there is demand, there can and will be a Hookland book club.

If there is demand, there can and will be a Hookland book club.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@Richard_Kadrey @zombiedeath Given how much I adore OS, I was so ready for that adaptation to be a wet pigeon fart and yet Is was glorious.

Given how much I adore OS, I was so ready for that adaptation to be a wet pigeon fart and yet Is was glorious.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@miniver @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @NB_Chris @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent After 30 years of writing about conspiracies, this list is gloriously, so many of the reasons why I stopped.

After 30 years of writing about conspiracies, this list is gloriously, so many of the reasons why I stopped.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@tyrsalvia @miniver @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @NB_Chris @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent I got out of the business of punishing books on them and pulling them apart. I got tired of being the voice of reason at conferences and on trash like Ancient Aliens – itself possibly a conspiracy – and I got tired of the security services wanting me to be a nutter magnet.

I got out of the business of punishing books on them and pulling them apart. I got tired of being the voice of reason at conferences and on trash like Ancient Aliens – itself possibly a conspiracy – and I got tired of the security services wanting me to be a nutter magnet.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@tyrsalvia @miniver @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @NB_Chris @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent Underlying the weaponisation of conspiracy are the myths of purity, exceptionalism and otherness. There are only so many times one can call out the bullshit before it takes a terrible psychic toll.

Underlying the weaponisation of conspiracy are the myths of purity, exceptionalism and otherness. There are only so many times one can call out the bullshit before it takes a terrible psychic toll.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@miniver @tyrsalvia @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @NB_Chris @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent I am haunted by the conversation I had with Bill Hicks which focused heavily on conspiracy theories, the idea that often the best they can do once you prove one happened – such as the assassination of RFK – is look on them as black mirrors telling us about cultural projection.

I am haunted by the conversation I had with Bill Hicks which focused heavily on conspiracy theories, the idea that often the best they can do once you prove one happened – such as the assassination of RFK – is look on them as black mirrors telling us about cultural projection.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@miniver @tyrsalvia @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @NB_Chris @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent There is no easy resolution. No direct consequence for good. We learn the world is not as it is, but then it becomes a matter of personal responsibility to do something with that rather than be colonised by the darkness of that.

There is no easy resolution. No direct consequence for good. We learn the world is not as it is, but then it becomes a matter of personal responsibility to do something with that rather than be colonised by the darkness of that.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@miniver @tyrsalvia @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @NB_Chris @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent That moment when you realise the commodification of conspiracy theory tells you everything you need to know about its place with current culture is the moment you need to pull out of it. That moment when you realise how normalised it has become is the moment you need to scream.

That moment when you realise the commodification of conspiracy theory tells you everything you need to know about its place with current culture is the moment you need to pull out of it. That moment when you realise how normalised it has become is the moment you need to scream.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@bonapart100 @miniver @NB_Chris @tyrsalvia @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent Made by @markopilkington which is a guarantee of quality.

Made by @markopilkington which is a guarantee of quality.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020

@tyrsalvia @miniver @DeltaGreenRPG @jamiedelano @NB_Chris @amyhale93 @runesoup @catvincent A big danger in conspiracy culture is as Hicks said, it’s the pornography of doom where those who feel they’ve the inside track on it whether through Biblical prophecy or cracking a conspiracy, feel better about the worst things and welcome the apocalypse to prove them right.

A big danger in conspiracy culture is as Hicks said, it's the pornography of doom where those who feel they've the inside track on it whether through Biblical prophecy or cracking a conspiracy, feel better about the worst things and welcome the apocalypse to prove them right.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) July 6, 2020