Tag: #society

Sometime back in 2016 and 2017, I found myself following the Pizzagate conspiracy story as it unfolded across the web. I was intrigued by it, but also deeply disturbed by its narrative and implications. What particularly caught my attention was the way the story seemed to resurface in connection with a seemingly random series of events: the John Podesta email leak, the failure of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, the deaths of musicians Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, and the emergence of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which would later culminate in his controversial death while in custody. But the imagery and ideas surrounding this subject were…