conspiracy theories
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I, too, have written about black kids, The Tooth Fairy, and conspiracy theories. The conspiracy theory my protagonist forms is somewhat less credible than the one Huey Freeman is suggesting to Jazmine, above. So I guess the point is that some conspiracy theories are wacky, some aren't as wacky, and some are just true.
It's very strange to me when people use "conspiracy theory" as a dismissive term. Which part don't they understand, the word 'conspiracy' or the word 'theory'?
It's even stranger to me when people explicitly say they don't believe in conspiracies. Not only are they proclaiming a shocking ignorance of history, they are denying the Holocaust.
Was Watergate not a conspiracy? What about Iran-Contra? When Churchill and FDR plotted in secret to get the US into WWII, was that a conspiracy?
We have documentary evidence from the 1950s and 60s that the CIA planned secret mass murders of American citizens with the goal of blaming Fidel and the communists. I consider that a big-time conspiracy whether or not the crimes were ever carried out.
If the skeptics knew the facts of what happened at Jekyll Island, would they deny them, or would they invoke tautology and say, "Oh, but I don't consider that a conspiracy."
As Butler Shaffer reminds us, after 9-11 George WMD Bush warned the American people against conspiracy theories -- and then tried to convince us that there was a secret alliance between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein! So don't believe the conspiracy theories we don't want you to believe but do believe the conspiracy theories we do want you to believe.
This sort of intellectual abdication is considered sophistication? And the belief that powerful people sometimes try to hide what they've done, or plan future coordinated acts in secret -- this belief is paranoia?
Today's paranoia -- at least some of it -- will some day be called history.
2 Comments:
I want to believe!
I love how you conspiracy nuts always pull out Operation Northwoods, as though it proves anything beyond the fact that there were some people in the CIA who put that idea to paper. That doesn't equate to it being planned as though it was really going to be acted upon. It's just a document that exists somewhere.
The creation of the Federal Reserve? Why is that some dark secret conspiracy? The operation of our money system is transparent to observe.
Don't you think it's a giant fucking hole in your belief system that this allegedly evil mastermind government that kills thousands of people on a whim hasn't managed to keep "The Truth" from getting out there?
How is it that you learned about Jekyll Island and Northwoods? Does it seem reasonable that this evil secret mastermind government that kills thousands of people would allow such evidence to be widely propagated and disseminated?
Face it buddy, you're just another internutter who believes anything they read, provided it's labeled as being a conspiracy theory. Seriously - ANYTHING you read.
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