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Is it more fun to believe in conspiracy theories than in the plain old mundane truth?
Wondering if this might be the reason that people on the right, the left, and the fringe cling to some of these theories–despite all the facts that you can throw at them that prove them wrong. I mean, a conspiracy theory sounds like it could be straight out of a Robert Ludlum novel which the truth is often just boring.
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9. July 2009 at 3:50 pm :
That about sums it up.
Some people never outgrow their need for junior high drama.
9. July 2009 at 4:34 pm :
Yes. Believing that the International Bankers run the world is just lunacy!
(or is it?)
11. July 2009 at 3:20 pm :
Yes, it is. And there’s more evidence the more you look. So, don’t look! Don’t have fun. Read the morning paper instead. Everything it says is true. And it is not fun to read.
12. July 2009 at 11:24 am :
Actually there have been several conspiracy theories that have proven to be true even though they were once regarded as nonsense. Conspiracies that have been publicly acknowledged as fact include watergate, the gulf of tonkin, the tuskegee syphilis scandal where people infected with syphilis took part in a study and went untreated for 40 years without any treatment whatsoever nor were they informed of their situation. the worst part was that the study was federally financed. Now you tell me the government isn’t capable of doing horrific things to its own people and hiding it from the public at the same time.
14. July 2009 at 2:40 am :
Codex is not wrong, but remember that just because one conspiracy was true it does not reflect on the next one.
Use Occam’s Razor as a tool to distinguish where you can. In the Tuskegee example I don’t see how most of the general public would have been able to distinguish.
15. July 2009 at 2:50 pm :
Yes I think that’s basically it.
And besides, enough of them have turned out to be true that you can never completely discount them.
18. July 2009 at 5:48 am :
I think some people just can’t believe that things can be straight forward. In a sense it shows a lack of maturity for not realizing that things are the way they are.