Protected-world cluster

The conspiracy-theory and fortress-conservative imagination. The wish is to see clearly through a fog the rest of the world is fooled by — and to belong to a community organized around what you all see. The counterfeit reaches for the unfalsifiable hidden-elite framework that explains everything, makes its believers feel above the credulous, and turns every disconfirming fact into evidence the conspiracy is deeper than they thought.

Anchor works

Goldwater Conscience of a Conservative (1960 — partial-refusal pole canonical, substantive conservative philosophy, no totalizing-conspiracy machinery); Schlafly A Choice Not An Echo (1964 — pure-counterfeit pole canonical, explicit "secret kingmakers" totalizing-conspiracy frame); QAnon canon (modern pure-counterfeit pole); Nazi-era propaganda; Pizzagate; some post-9/11 security-state media. Foundational-moment bistability confirmed — 4-year gap mirrors Carnegie/Hill 1-year gap within self-help.