Of a twopart seminar hosted by the gilder limit institute of American History. It is about 90 minutes. Andrews had this conspiracy belief work in the ground, who are the people we are talking about . Were going to talk a little about that. Many, if not all of our students will come in with conspiracy beliefs. If you had a conversation with any of your students. People recognize that these beliefs should not be spoken of so you would give a lesson on 9 11 in which you would have a class of 30 students perhaps go through a class go out and as soon as they get out they turned to each other and say you know it was an inside job. Depending on your class environment and atmosphere. When i sit down on a plane and i tell somebody im a historian they tend to want to talk about the civil war. I teach the civil war. That is great. If i tell them i work on conspiracies the floodgates open to all kinds of circus show from l to the highly disturbingly specific. Its important to think about how these
Give, for example, a lesson on 9 11 in which you would have a class of 30 students go out and as soon as they turn to each other, theyll go, you know it was an inside job, but not necessarily bring it up in class, dependsing on your class environment and atmosphere. When i sit down on plane and i tell somebody i am a historian, they tend to want to talk about the civil war, which i teach the civil war. Thats great. If i tell them that i work on conspiracies, the floodgates are opened to an all kinds of circus show that can come out. Right . All kinds of things from the very banal to the highly disturbing and to the highly disturbingly specific. It is important to talk about how these things work, how widespread they are and what causes people to hold on to them. If we see this only as part of not us, something we dont address, something we dont talk about, then it changes how we see these beliefs. I also think that in a conversation cliff, who was here, said he had a conversation with
Theyll go, you know it was an inside job, but not necessarily bring it up in class, dependsing on your class environment and atmosphere. When i sit down on plane and i tell somebody i am a historian, they tend to want to talk about the civil war, which i teach the civil war. Thats great. If i tell them that i work on conspiracies, the floodgates are opened to an all kinds of circus show that can come out. Right . All kinds of things from the very banal to the highly disturbingly specific. It is important to talk about how these things work, how widespread they are and what causes people to hold on to them. If we see this only as part of not us, something we dont address, something we dont talk about, then it changes how we see these beliefs. I also think that in a conversation cliff, who was here, said he had a conversation with high school teenagers. These High School Students brought up conspiracy theories and he had a really engaged conversation with them that they really had ideas
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in gdansk and a counseling at the same time the first thing we do is to say i did that in atlanta or ohio but never again. so you don t get that person space so that is part of it there are chances for improvement with the problems that you re mentioning and they are serious as growth has slowed and people get to know the area better. if there is hope it is part of a shared experience it has been an intimate conversation we had multiple panels along these lines. thank you to our panel. [applause] enjoy a rest of the festival. thanks for bringing us together. [inaudible conversations] the final panel from the vegas valley book festival and a look at the legal system. [inaudible conversations] afternoon welcome to the 37 annual, 14th annual. [laughter] of the vegas valley book festival we will not talk about me today as much as ever bite to but instead these artist the best-selling author rebecca morris of bodies of evidence her new book about a love triangle will be