I'm working (slowly) on my next article for my newsletter (which can be found at henryneilsen.substack.com). It's partially about the fifteen minute city conspiracy theory that ran through as a sort of post-Qanon weirdness earlier this year, but it's also about the challenges that the real fifteen minute city design faces.
I'm finding it harder than most of my previous work because the conspiracy theory itself HAS no basis in reality. It's this fluid movement of ideas that constantly point at one another and then at some omnipotent, nebulous "they" that always seems out of reach. It's difficult to find a kernel to latch onto in these conspiracy theories, but I'm fascinated by how they germinate and spread.
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