Problem: Consider a Conspiracy Theory that is circulating now. For example, you might consider the theory that the COVID-19 vaccines don't really help to fight Covid but actually just allow the government to inject tracking chips into our bodies. Apply Cassam's five features of Conspiracy Theories to the theory you have chosen and briefly describe how many of them seem to apply.
Paranoia. Draw attention to a form of paranoia in the world around us that you think resembles the paranoia visible in one of our literary texts (The Crucible, A Scanner Darkly, or Bodily Harm). Cite language from the literary text at least once, and then explore the comparison between the literary text and our own world.