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I think we may have come to a fork in the road where conspiracies are concerned.
During this nearly 25-year period, there was balance and even a sort of harmony.
But it no longer works like that.
In the age of Donald Trump things have gotten seriously out of kilter.
There have always been conspiracy theories, of course, and the paranoid mind-set in America is not new.
But within ten years this paradigm had pretty much been turned on its head.
But maybe a case can be made that the 1970s were a little different.
He introduces his great 1995 novelAmerican Tabloidwith this bold statement: America was never innocent.
We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets.
Hes right, of course.
And for another, conspiracy theory itself had become a devalued currency.
Thanks mainly to the internet, the paranoid style wasnow back in force.
So where does this leave conspiracy fiction?
Well, sort of in the lurch.
But thats okay, because really, weve moved on.
Its not that people dont conspire anymore.
We take it for granted that they do.
Perhaps now its time to round off the trilogy withNone Dare Call It Truth.
Is Tony Gilroys movieMichael Clayton(2007) a conspiracy thriller?
Is Peter Temples novelTruth(2008)?
Its a valuable resource, and not one that will be running out anytime soon.
