Comments on: Considering Conspiracy Theories

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:23:27 +0000

I’ve also been thinking about the subject, and I think you summed up my thoughts best with your response to Aaron. Conspiracy theorists tend to wanna seem above the flock, they want to look like the questioners, like the cynical elite who are ubber skeptical; yet they’re the exact opposite- they go one step beyond the truth, find their own explanation, then absolutely refuse to let anyone question them. They are perhaps the least skeptical group out there, funny as it sounds, because they are so quick to “believe” they are right no matter what the most obvious facts show.

By: leslie

leslie — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:03:43 +0000

So…that old guy at the Starbucks I talked to for hours WASN’T Elvis? Dang.

By: david

david — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:21:30 +0000

Aaron, I thought of deleting your comment because it began with an ad hominem attack, but you illustrated one of the points I made so perfectly that I couldn’t let it go.

Conspiracy theorist, once they come to believe, take a measure of pride in being in on the knowledge that no one else has. It’s not that they could convince an outsider if they really were to try, but they’re sure that everyone else is just too closed-minded to listen.

As to the conflation, to the extent that it occurred, it was unintentional. It’s absolutely true that not all conspiracy theorists believe all conspiracy theories. I was merely using these as examples. That they ran together was an error.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:51:00 +0000

The problem with this blog like many others is that it is done by someone that apparently knows little about what they are writing about. The internet is awash in worthless drivel. Why add more?

First of all you lump subjects together that are unrelated like Elvis and 9/11. Ridiculous!

Obviously Elvis is dead. Next subject.

There are actually hundreds of eyewitnesses to Roswell. None of them agree with the official balloon theory.

Not much of the official conspiracy theory of 9/11 makes sense or has anything to back it up. There are many unanswered questions that officials refuse to answer. Why? If they could dispel a “myth” with the truth then why don’t they? Why don’t they tell us really why building 7 fell?

Please go do some research before you blog anymore.