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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > > I don't buy it. I prefer parsimonious explanations. The Protocols
> > > are a forgery. Grand Conspiracies are too complex, too baroque, to
> > > be valid explanations of observed phenomena.
> >
> > You present an all encompassing conspiracy as the controller of all
> > media and then treat this straw man as unbelievable and thus assert
> > all conspiracy theories as too complex. This strawman conspiracy
> > theory may be too complex, but that does not prove that others are
> > not true.
>
> I agree with your assessment Howard. It is typical of anti-conspiracy
> skeptics to trot out ridiculous all encompassing conspiracies that have
> no basis in fact, then point out their invalidity and ridiculousness in
> an effort to "prove" that all conspiracies are invalid or ridiculous.
> The who UFO issue is another that falls in this category. I don't
> believe that Ric was trying to say that ALL conspiracies are invalid,
> but will let him speak for himself on the matter. I DO believe that
> there is a "grand" conspiracy of some type behind the scenes that has
> forged much of the history of this country. The current NWO is but a
> modern manifestation of it. The names may change but the faces and
> perpetrators remain the same.
Note: I presented an example, not a strawman. I said nothing about "all"
conspiracies. My comments were deliberately misconstrued / misrepresented
unfortunately. Are there conspiracies? Certainly. Are they successful?
Sometimes. Do omnipotent conspiracies exist that control information,
politics, economics? Unknowable - if such conspiracies DO exist, all one
THINKS one knows about them derives from data that they control; thus the
conspiratorialist is their dupe, manipulated by all their leaks, their
disinfo campaigns. Is conspiratorialism insane? Possibly. Does The
Conspiracy work to drive all investigators insane? Maybe. Unknowable.
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