NoCoPilot
Posts : 21124 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 70 Location : Seattle
| Subject: The Origin of Conspiracy Theories Mon Sep 04, 2023 6:42 am | |
| What do you think of this idea. The biggest "conspiracy theory" of all is taught to youngsters around the world. An entire corporate world has grown up to sell it to the masses (literally). In some places it is a requirement to hold public office that you subscribe to this particular conspiracy theory. When people espouse this theory in public or on TV, nobody thinks they're crazy. In fact, people think it makes them look like "good people." So people who have digested and absorbed the idea that there's an Invisible Sky Father who lives above the clouds and controls everything, who can make your life miserable if you say bad things about him, or wonderful if you talk to him lovingly before bed, these people are predisposed to believe: - The World Trade towers were an inside job, for some purpose we can't quite delineate
- JFK was killed by the CIA or the Mafia or the Cubans or somebody
- We never landed on the moon, it was all an elaborate hoax
- The 2020 election was rigged by tens of thousands of election workers and politicians and lawyers and judges
- Covid-19 was a government (ours or Chinese, it doesn't matter) plot to control people and take away their freedoms
It all comes down to this: gullibility, credulousness and a lack of common sense. Which is EXACTLY what religious education is designed to instill. |
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