I just realized that we've come full circle: anti-vaxxers, chemtrailers, flat-earthers... all these movements are modern-day variants what Le Goff defines as "magical" or "symbolic" thinking: everything in this planeis considered as an expression of something on a higher plane (the spiritual plane in the middle ages, "deep state, "big pharma" or others nowadays), which leads to a paranoid over-analysis of even the tiniest details in a constant desire to understand "what lingers in the dark"