Conspiracy theory

On the Mother of all Conspiracies [Video]

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conspiracyAnn Kreilkamp – Before I refer you to an even larger — imagined? channeled? intuitively known? — in any case, assiduously analyzed, dot-connected, and summarized —  sweeping panorama of what appears as a gigantic virus/election “sting” (or conspiracy theory?) or “TRAP,” the unfoldment of which is still unrolling across our mental landscape, with the 2020 election “defeat” of President Trump as “BAIT,” you might want to absorb this essay. Very well done. I was going to excerpt from it here, but every single paragraph says it all in its own way. Simply stunning. Thank you, Tim Foyle.

On the Psychology of the Conspiracy Denier

A Closer Look at the Class that Mocks

Okay, one excerpt, this one Foyle’s view of various other causes that surround and buttress the context of his understanding of the utterly foundational root of those stuck in “conspiracy” denial: failure to outgrow the original, natural, psychology of the human infant. Continue reading →

Why “Conspiracy Theory” Is Hate Speech

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Conspiracy theoryPaul Rosenberg – Hate speech” of course is a fairly silly term, since intent doesn’t necessarily follow the literal meaning of words. Let me give you an example:

I once sold a house to a gay couple. The one of the pair I dealt with happened to be a really decent guy with a good sense of humor. At the walk through our conversation went something like this:

James (laughing): So, Paul, you don’t mind selling your house to a couple of fags?

Paul (also laughing): Nah, it’ll make the neighbors happy. You guys are always neat and stylish, aren’t you?

I assure you, there was no hate involved in this conversation. James started the joke and I joined in with him. And while I don’t normally call people “fag,” in this case I played along because it was just that… playful. Using “fag” this way diffused tensions rather than caused them.

That said, I’ll play along with the political term “hate speech” today, because the term, “conspiracy theory,” as it’s so often used, really does have aggression and hate built into it. Continue reading →

Who Are the Real “Conspiracy Theorists”?

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Zen Gardner –  Like many of you, I’m sick and tired of this pejorative label of conspiracy theorist pasted flippantly onto anyone seriously challenging the status quo. There was a time this CIA conspiracy theorist tag, created to fend off questions about the JFK murder, was a marginalized stigmatization in itself used for specific targets, but now it’s used so widely and crudely it’s time we took it down.

What “flipped my switch” to address this is an almost hard to believe news item that was brought to my attention that makes one sick to their stomach that such a regime could dare to attempt such blatant  Orwellian police state tactics on a conscious population.

And most of all the appalling truth-reversing hypocrisy it represents.

Reporter Donny Gilson falsely committed to 6 months in St. Cloud MN psychiatric ward for conspiracy theories

VANCOUVER, BC – In an interview from inside the Behavioral Mental Unit of the St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud, MN, Donny Gilson, reporter for Truth Frequency Radio, has been able to document his ordeal since a commitment based on family objections to his conspiracy theories, thus reporting on how many alternative media and free thinkers on the Internet are targeted by increased surveillance under “psychiatric” laws that hold conspiracy research to be a “mental disorder”. Continue reading →

The Critical Thinking Trap: How the “Conspiracy Theory” Label Undermines the Truth

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conspiracy theoriesKatherine Smith Ph.D – “Conspiracy” is a real word for a real events that have taken place in human societies in all cultures throughout human history. [see Appendix A]

The assassination of the President of the United States on national television by a “lone” assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, who himself is assassinated the next day by another “lone” assassin—would cause even the most rational skeptic, or critical thinker, to question the institutional narrative of the events. [1] In other words, the institutional narrative, or official explanation, of a lone assassin who was in turn assassinated the very next day by another lone assassin, is as epistemically dubious, and as equally “silly and without merit”, as any of the conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination.

The human species has evolved as pattern-seeking, cause-inferring animals. As such, our nature drives us to find meaningful relationships to understand the world. Conspiracy theories are offered as alternate explanation to an important social, political or economic event (henceforward, “The Event”) when the institutional narrative is confusing or unsatisfactory.

Conspiracy, originally a neutral term, has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning since the mid sixties, for it implies a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in certain events. Conspiracy theorizing has become commonplace in the mass media and emerged as a cultural phenomenon in the United States following the public assassination of JFK.

Noam Chomsky, linguist and scholar, contrasts conspiracy theory as, more or less, the opposite of institutional analysis. The latter focuses mostly on explanations based on the information found in official records of publicly known institutions, whereas the former offers explanations based on information derived from coalitions of individuals.

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