What saddens me is not the excellent job he did showing the flaws in the conspiracy logic, but that he needed to.
I don’t really understand why people need to believe in conspiracies so badly.
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I posted this video last week.
It is fantastic, and deserves re-posting!
that was glorious.
Fascinating.
Great! Thanks! Really enjoyed it.
People believe in conspiracies because they don’t want us to.
(sorry — couldn’t resist)
Excellent. Now that’s got me thinking all over again. Damn. But thanks. Nice production.
That was totally classy!!
Conspiracy theories are like religion in that some people cannot process that some things occur randomly or without some kind of grand plan. The death of JFK was monumental in its impact, they reason, so how could that have been carried out by a single guy working by himself? Going to the moon was a huge deal, too, and they can’t conceive that it was basically thanks to a fairly small handful of scientists and engineers. All conspiracy theories basically boil down to people working from a relatively myopic viewpoint — “If I couldn’t make all the necessary calculations to send a man to the moon, how could anyone else?” “If I can’t conceive of a rationale for how and why one man would want to kill the president, then it must have been the work of several people!” They probably don’t think something like that at a conscious level, but that’s the basic rationale.
To some people, Conspiracy Theories give more meaning to mundane events involving celebrities of one stripe or another, or just otherwise mundane tragedies. Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t have shot JFK on his own -> The CIA put him up to it! Princess Diana couldn’t have been killed in a ‘mere’ tragic car accident. There was a British Government Conspiracy to prevent Dodi Al-Fayed from becoming part of the British Royal Family! And so on and so forth. :/
Some conspiracy theories, unfortunately, can become all too real. While the Moon landings can be faked for a television audience, a fake program can’t replicate the actual evidence that can be seen today. There are, however, more serious questions surrounding the governments of the world, none the least of which surround the administration of the current American government. I thought the Watergate scandal was bad, but this is much worse. The Nixon administration and Watergate was just a conspiracy theory too, until it was blown open. Now we have Benghazi-gate, Fast and Furious, financial Bailouts for friends of the administration, central bank monetary policy, the LIBOR scandal, and on and on.
someone should come up w/ hilarious conspiracy theories… simply to make people see how easy it is to create one.
Technically those would meet the definition of conspiracy, but they are not what people mean when they talk about conspiracy theories.
For a start, without exception they do come to the public’s attention and their validity is tested. This completely fails the definition of conspiracy theory.
Except possibly “central bank monetary policy”
Where were you back in 69, smoke’n dope an drink’n wine… Just an outlaw!
I was just 9 in 69, but we were all sitting in front of the floor model black and white, watching Neil Armstrong steep on the moon!