If strange incidents like coverups, false wars, lies, etc. increase,
and the people are upset, and there's no conspiracy what would happen?
The government, professing to love democracy and caring what the
people want, would hold investigations into the reason for the popular
dissatisfaction and stop doing what is causing the mistrust.
IF THERE IS A CONSPIRACY and strange incidents like coverups, false
wars, lies, etc. take place. What would happen?
THE GOVERNMENT WILL RAPIDLY ACCELERATE THESE ACTIVITIES AND THEN CLAIM
FOR THE LIFE OF THEM THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE DON'T TRUST
THEM. THEY WILL THEN SEND ABANDONED CONSPIRATORS ALL OVER THE MEDIA
TO WARN THE PUBLIC AGAINST ...
PARANOIA!!
THESE ABANDONED IMPS WILL THEN CONSTANTLY WHINE DAY AND NIGHT ABOUT
THE...
BIG BAD OL "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" THAT ARE OUT TA GET 'EM, and destroy
this mighty country.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL THEN INCREASE ITS SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES.
In His Grace,
Susan
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:03:53 -0700, Ike <retired@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>THE NEED FOR CONSPIRACIES
>
>Michael Shermer*, who is among the clear thinkers at Cal Tech, says
>"We're pattern-seeking, story-telling animals". He thinks that such
>behavior distinguishes us from all other animals, and I think he's
>mostly right. In the 1950s book YOU SHALL KNOW THEM (Vercours?, as I
>recall), a wonderful case was made for the idea that an indelible human
>characteristic is a hard-wired need for faith - something to believe in
>- something that creates a detectable boundary between believers and the
>nonbelievers. For decades I've enjoyed the philosophical combination of
>that concept with Shermer's, and a few years ago in an epiphany I
>realized that the formula applies equally to good and evil.
>
>It appears that we have an almost desperate need for conspiracy and for
>conspiracy theories. People form religions, groups, conspiracies, clubs,
>and other associations for the very sake of belonging - of being part of
>that school of fish whether purposeful or not, whether good or otherwise.
>
>People become conspiracy theorists because they have a similarly
>desperate need to "know something" that others don't, to feel smugly
>better about themselves, to be on the inside, to enjoy a jargon that
>mere mortals don't understand. Compulsive conspiracy theorists see
>conspiracy patterns in every cataclysm except for earthquakes, and a few
>years ago I read an online article about the evil scientists using
>infrasound to cause tremors for their own nefarious purposes! B.F.
>Skinner proved (in a way) that you don't need to be right very often to
>be certain you're right all the time. For most conspiracy theorists, one
>real conspiracy every now and then is sufficient to make them all real.
>In between the real ones, they simply discard the evidence that
>disagrees with them and take what's available.
>
>It's easy to be a highly successful conspiracy theorist today, to walk
>around certain of your superiority even though you deliver packages for
>a living and spend four hours a day in front of a television set. There
>are enough real conspiracies around to keep the gears greased, and
>enough m***** of information from which to pick and choose evidence to
>fuel those fecund imaginations.
>
>9/11 is a fine example. There was plenty of incompetence in that tragic
>scenario, and every attempt to duck responsibility or to protect a job,
>every failure to explain the juxtaposition of two stray molecules,
>resulted in another incredibly convincing piece of evidence for the
>conspiracy theorists. But that whole jigsaw puzzle - admittedly with
>many pieces damaged and many more that can't be found - was assembled by
>a well-intentioned army of scientists, engineers, analysts, and other
>investigators that had no ax to grind except a search for the truth. I
>know some of them personally - they couldn't be corrupted if their wives
>had been kidnapped. Collectively, they reached their conclusions and
>turned in their notes. They did a fine job - I know that as a fact.
>
>I resent people who ignore these professionals who worked 20 hours a day
>digging for truth, and second-guess every decision, every finding, every
>piece of evidence. The people criticizing the investigation have never
>seen the evidence and whenever an effort (like the various magazine
>articles and television shows) tries to summarize the investigation for
>the lay public, all you hear is "it's fixed!" Every one of these idiots
>- usually with no education, no skills, no training even remotely
>associated with the subject claims conspiracy, fraud, plot. They have
>their own reality, and it has no connection to mine. They claim that the
>president of our country, and the secret agencies of several countries,
>and thousands of investigators, are all in on the plot.
>
>And if they didn't have that conspiracy they'd find another one. They
>need it like I need food.
>
>Ike
>
>*Shermer's incredible CV is at http://www.skeptic.com/DrShermerCV.htm
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