In Land of Delusion, cultural historian Colin Dickey, author of the acclaimed The Unidentified and Ghostland, introduces us to Tartaria, a great empire that sprang from Russia and spread across the globe, only to be destroyed by evil schemers who erased it from the history books. These ludicrous beliefs offer a road map of where we might be headed and also highlight the lunacy that’s already here. They seem laughably far-fetched, but behind the absurdity lurk radical ideas that are becoming alarmingly commonplace. In recent years, however, as everything from stolen-election claims to vaccine disinformation to QAnon has made daily headlines, conspiracists have moved, if not front and center, then awfully close.Īs the American right wing retreats further into its political bunker and war rages in Ukraine, two particularly bizarre theories are gaining traction in the United States and Russia. They were the oddballs in the tinfoil hats, raging to one another about who really shot JFK and whether or not an astronaut walked on the moon.
Not so long ago, conspiracy theorists were relegated to the cultural fringes.
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