Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in Us History
For all its creativity, Birds Aren’t Real quickly wears thin and drags in several parts ... As a movement, Birds Aren’t Real worked as a savvy device for social commentary. As a book, there’s just not enough meat — synthetically engineered or otherwise — to sustain it.
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Cosplaying the paranoid fringe, Birds Aren’t Real delivers a knowing satire of American conspiratorial thinking in the century of QAnon. Beneath the collegiate humor, however, lies a profound grasp of conspiracism’s psychic appeal, and a valuable provocation.
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The joke, which pokes fun at several things at once—unhinged conspiracy theorists, actual government malfeasance, and how genuinely weird birds are—begins here as a tongue-in-check history of the U.S. surveillance state ... A silly and winning spoof.
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