[ SECRET POST #5125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5125 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

yeah I'm pretty sure there were tinfoil hat jokes in the X-Files, so definitely predates it. but now I want to go down a rabbit hole searching for the etymology of the term...

sa

[(Anonymous)]

well that was a disappointingly shallow hole with a poorly written wiki on one end and literal conspiracy sites saying it totally works science says so on the other.

anyway 1926 first literary citation. Do with that information what you will.

Re: sa

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's quite bad, because the literary citation is an example from a science fiction story, when what would be most interesting is either (a) people seriously believing that tin hats would help keep out conspiracy rays or (b) the broad cultural stereotype that conspiracy people believe in tinfoil hats

Re: sa

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, the story's great, it straight up uses tinfoil hats as a means to block telepathy, it's how all of us are used to using it even before the morphology of "tinhatter" to mean "person who believes a stupid conspiracy." what's missing is how frequently it was used in scifi/fandom circles between Amazing Stories in the 20s to regular scifi parlance in the 70s to being such cultural zeitgeist that sitcoms in the 80s and 90s to poke fun at alien conspiracy believers.