Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children # 3: Mole Children vs. Gazan Children

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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What does it mean to spill ink on dispelling conspiracy theories about non-existent children being murdered, while actual children are being murdered? At what point does the labour of debunking right wing wackjobs also do the shadow-work of supporting the liberal-center orthodoxy? Matthew looks at how with QAnon, the liberal-center press criticized irrational responses to imaginary traumas, with a great sense of urgency. But on Gaza, they criticize rational responses to actual traumas, and imply that protesters are asking for too much, too fast. What happens downstream of denials, minimizations, and contradictions? What are the social and mental health implications of moral injury? Are these not some of the same social conditions that generate conspiracism? Content warning: discussion of children, genocide Show Notes Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza | UN News Dems Gave the 'Uncommitted Movement' Space to Talk About Gaza — Just Not on TV First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to “Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party” “Stop Arming Israel”: Meet the DNC Delegates Who Unfurled Banner During Biden Speech 201: Librarians Are Not Groomers (w/Heath Umbreit) — Conspirituality What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”: Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential - The Lancet Clearing Gaza of almost 40m tonnes of war rubble will take years, says UN Israel Has Killed 2,100 Babies Under 2 Years Old in Gaza, Rights Group Says | Truthout NYU barricades benches College Administrators Spent Summer Break Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza Protests The Black Mark on the Democrats’ Big Party | The New Republic Amnesty International Warns of U.S. Complicity in War Crimes in Gaza Christian Wiman | Yale Divinity School Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to Conspiratoriality where we investigate the
0:06.4	intersection of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover
0:09.8	cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.
0:13.5	I'm Matthew Remsky.
0:14.9	We are on Instagram and threads at Conspiruality Pod,
0:19.1	and you can access all of our episodes ad free,
0:21.6	plus our Monday bonus episodes on Patreon, or just our bonus
0:26.0	episodes via Apple subscriptions.
0:29.6	This is the third episode in a bonus series called Can Spirituality and the Imaginary Children.
0:37.2	At the end of March, I released an introduction to this series so you can scroll back through
0:41.6	your Patreon feed and look for that before jumping in here.
0:44.8	But to recap that intro, this occasional series will be looking at how children as symbols,
0:51.1	but not persons with their own internal lives, are at the center of
0:56.0	conspiratoriality, anxiety, and discourse.
0:59.2	I'll be looking at two types of imaginary child in this landscape.
1:03.6	One is an object of dread, and the other is an idol of aspiration.
1:09.1	Now the first episode began in that dread category, with the title being fetal remains. It was all about
1:14.8	how two men both leaders in the anti-abortion movement invested real remains
1:20.5	with passionate but imaginary desires that obscured from them how much harm they were causing to real children and families.
1:29.0	Now, Rob Schenck, one of those men, woke up from that fever, but Frank Pavone is still burning with it.
1:36.7	The second episode was God's Word on Spanking, after the title of a pamphlet published by Ralph Drollinger, a former
1:46.1	professional basketball player from San Diego who founded a 501c3 called
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