slimmouse wrote:Doodad wrote:"So who is running this show on behalf of the "not so trooful, troof party?"To a large degree, the left is vulnerable to conspiracist thinking to the extent that it remains trapped in such faulty mainstream assumptions. This romanticized vision of US society is mirrored in mainstream conservative criticism of liberalism as well. As Himmelstein notes, "The core assumption" of post-WWII conservatism "is the belief that American society on all levels has an organic order--harmonious, beneficent, and self-regulating--disturbed only by misguided ideas and policies, especially those propagated by a liberal elite in the government, the media, and the universities."
From the article ;
Genuine conspiracies have seldom been as dangerous or as powerful as have movements of countersubversion. The exposer of conspiracies necessarily adopts a victimized, self-righteous tone which masks his own meaner interests as well as his share of responsibility for a given conflict. Accusations of conspiracy conceal or justify one's own provocative acts and thus contribute to individual or national self-deception. Still worse, they lead to overreactions, particularly to degrees of suppressive violence which normally would not be tolerated.
Now that's cute
Nero fiddled while Rome burned ( whilst reflecting on itself )springs to mind.
P.S.
"The official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is still a lie"
The guy really has a handle on a lot of things, as does our Jeff, He admits that there are and have always been real conspiracies. Only a fool would not admit that. He also realizes how these and faux conspiracies can serve others with a different agenda just as well as the true believers.
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Me, I figured out back in the summer of '69 that EVERYBODY was lying to me. Everything since then has just been proof except when I encounter someone who also figured it out. I recognize them by their disdain for recruitment among a few other things.
