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The 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a scam. Hillary Clinton is one of the most vicious serial killers in history.
The accusations in the documentary “The United States of Conspiracies” (SVT Play) get to see Alex Jones deliver are so bizarre that his audience shouldn’t be larger than what would fit in an ordinary courtroom. But conspiratorial businessman Jones’ media platform Infowars will continue to have several million views a month, even though internet giants like Facebook and YouTube have now declared that they want nothing to do with it.
How can there be such a blatantly lucrative market for a professional liar like Alex Jones? And how can the distance between your sunken study and the oval room be so surprisingly short? (According to the documentary, Donald Trump has not only been interviewed by Alex Jones, he has also been inspired.)
A partial answer to the riddle It could simply be that the less you know about the real world, the easier it will be to settle into imaginary worlds. In this context, it is even more alarming that so many young Americans seem to live in a world without history.
In the digital world, anyone can hear the lone maniac scream
Judging from a large survey recently presented by the Claims conference, an organization that safeguards the rights and interests of Holocaust survivors, the “millennial generation” and the “generation Z” in the United States, young adults in the group of ages 18 to 39, know a little about the Holocaust. Almost half of the participants did not respond when asked to name a camp or ghetto; 56 percent were unable to identify Auschwitz-Birkenau, only 6 percent knew about Dachau, and only 1 percent had heard of Buchenwald, who like Dachau was liberated by US troops in April 1945.
And most of all Worrying: more than 10 percent pointed to “Jews” as responsible for the Holocaust. Another result of the survey indicates that the problem here is not only the absence of effective research, but also the presence of effective disseminators. A large proportion of young Americans stated that they had come into contact with Holocaust deniers (49 percent) or Nazi symbols (56 percent), mostly through social media.
The survey covers the first generations to live their entire lives online. It is a thought provoker. In the digital world, anyone can hear the screams of the lonely maniac. And hey, you’re not alone anymore.
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