12-13-2004, 07:52 PM
read the book, and perhaps you'd understand my point on "conspiracy theories". Though the John Keel quote sums it up enough. i'll try to make GaltNotes for you:
Conspiracies, though, as in the case of the Ukranian candidate being poisoned and other true issues....are more often than not...what people "want" to believe, whether b/c of greed, advantage or fear. Illumunati, UFOs, you name it....someone benefits from some sort of mythos added to it. In the case of the Illumunati...bunch of losers get mystique and feeds their egos...think they are part of something bigger. UFOs...U.S. gov't lets the fantasy fester as they test away on their propulsion, weapons, etc etc. UFOs boomed during and after WW2..and hit the roof during the Cold War. Cultures constantly try to group and commune on concepts to try to transcend the muck and mire of their dull life. They create and join religions, clubs, messageboards, you name it...and all think they have something over everyone else...and they buy into it. They become "special", or perhaps become the very nature of what they were freaking out on in the first place.
Thats what the book I cited was all about...the conspiracy is not the conspiracy, but how people conspire to create more out of it.
It's not to say things happen...and people get together to make them happen...but most conspiracy "theories" are lacking fact, tons of conjecture and once they are..they cease to be anything informative, and play on peoples emotions and paranioa.
Conspiracies, though, as in the case of the Ukranian candidate being poisoned and other true issues....are more often than not...what people "want" to believe, whether b/c of greed, advantage or fear. Illumunati, UFOs, you name it....someone benefits from some sort of mythos added to it. In the case of the Illumunati...bunch of losers get mystique and feeds their egos...think they are part of something bigger. UFOs...U.S. gov't lets the fantasy fester as they test away on their propulsion, weapons, etc etc. UFOs boomed during and after WW2..and hit the roof during the Cold War. Cultures constantly try to group and commune on concepts to try to transcend the muck and mire of their dull life. They create and join religions, clubs, messageboards, you name it...and all think they have something over everyone else...and they buy into it. They become "special", or perhaps become the very nature of what they were freaking out on in the first place.
Thats what the book I cited was all about...the conspiracy is not the conspiracy, but how people conspire to create more out of it.
It's not to say things happen...and people get together to make them happen...but most conspiracy "theories" are lacking fact, tons of conjecture and once they are..they cease to be anything informative, and play on peoples emotions and paranioa.
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.
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