Or "just because your paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Dan Scanlan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 7, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My theory is that conspiracy theories are orchestrated by a conspiracy. > > Well, sort of.... > > I think many people, especially "intelligent liberal thinkers" react > viscerally to their own intensional meaning of "conspiracy" and do not > bother to consider the extensional meaning, i.e., "secret collaboration". > > It is empirically possible to prove that people often get together > privately to plan an event or orchestrate a program. Surprise is an > important part of successfully pulling off a plan. Being prepared to > respond to the expected reaction to a surprise is an important element of > any well planned operation. > > It's not rocket science but it does seem to be beyond the reach of high > falutin' intelligentsia intent on making cogent, salient and witty > observations--obvious truth be damned. > > Happens all the time. Keeps the greedy wealthy rich and in control of the > conversation. Hard to see the forest at all when you've got knee caps stuck > in your eyes. > > Want to avoid really dealing with an issue? Label it a conspiracy theory > and move on to a different box, perhaps an obscure economic theory that > hasn't the weight of a fart in a laundry line but that seems to prop up > personal posture. > > Remember the childhood joke about the two dullards who happened upon dog > shit. After they looked, felt, smelled and tasted it they agreed it was, > indeed, dog shit. "Glad I didn't step in it", one says. Today's "liberal" > is more apt to say "It's a conspiracy theory, therefore it can't be dog > shit." > > I forget who said something like "even though the truth isn't known, it > still exists." > > Probably why so many liberals walk on the other side of the street these > days--to avoid the shit they deny on their own side. > > Dan Scanlan > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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