Typology and Conspiracy

As a philosophy of history, typology highlights the unintended consequences of our actions, the unintended meanings of our words.

Conspiracy theories have no room for unintended events. If something happened, someone somewhere planned it.

Typology and conspiracy are competing theories of history.

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