Conspiracies...preying on the weak minded...to what end?

Question

Warren Commission - JFK's Death
Area 51?
Is Elvis dead?
9/11 Government Conspiracy
We knew about Pearl Harbor
The holocaust was fake
We did not land on the Moon
Bones of ancient man are fake

All these conspiracies can be debunked...

Answer 1

People tend to believe in conspiracies such as those listed above for the following reasons:

1. Belief in conspiracies is easy. It doesn't take any real intellectual curiosity nor does it require any personal research. They simply let OTHERS research each topic then if their theory sounds interesting, or scandalous, or complicated enough then they EMBRACE it. Since it saves THEM the work of doing any real research.

2. We live in a world of intellectually-lazy people. People would rather believe what someone ELSE has researched than to have to actually open a scholarly book and research on their own. There belief in conspiracies is convenient.

3. Belief in conspiracies gives the believer a false sense of superiority or an inflated sense of intelligence. They believe that since they don't go along with the "official version" they must be, therefore, somehow smarter than the powers that be. I've spent thirty years debating the Kennedy assassination with conspiracy lovers and they are all the same. They think that because people laugh at their ridiculous theories they must be on to something--otherwise people wouldn't laugh at them. I've read several people compare themselves to the great thinkers of the past who were also laughed at. "Copernicus was laughed at. Galilelo was laughed at. Einstein was laughed at." My response is always the same, "Yeah, but they also laughed at the Three Stooges." Just because someone is a nonconformist and are laughed at does not mean they are right.

4. Belief in conspiracies eliminates the need for evidence to support your theories. If you champion some ridiculous theory (such as those listed above) and better-read individuals point out that there is no evidence to support your ridiculous premise--that's no problem. Why is there no evidence in support of your conspiracy theory? Easy. The CONSPIRATORS eliminated it. HOW did they eliminate it? We don't know. That's part of the conspiracy. WHO were these conspirators? How did they get in and out of the building without being seen? How did they escape? Why haven't any of them come forth to write books or confess? Easy. The CONSPIRACY took care of all those messy details.

5. People believe in conspiracies because they WANT terrible results to have MASSIVE causes. If the World Trade Centers were destroyed, killing 3,000+ INNOCENT people, it cannot be the work of a few terrorists. It HAS to be a bigger cause. It is as if people have a scale in their minds and the two trays (cause--result) have to balance. If we place the Holocaust on one tray and on the other tray we place Hitler, Himmler, Goebbles, the SS, the SA, the Nazi Party, and all of the staff of the concentration and the death camps, then the trays seem to balance out. Terrible result--massive cause. If however we place Kennedy's assassination on one tray and then we take a pair of tweezers and pick up the miserable waife Oswald and place him on the other tray, the two don't seem to balance in some people's minds. They WANT to add more to the other tray. So they pile on the Mafia, the CIA, the Secret Service, the Russians, the Cubans, or any number of suspicious organizations or individuals. Thereby "equaling" the scales. Terrible result--Terrible cause. The fact that there is no evidence that ANY of these individuals or organizations were involved doesn't matter. They HAD to somehow be involved.

6. Belief in conspiracies shows how untrained thinkers attempt to explain things they don't understand. They go by their gut feelings rather than their cold intellectual training. I've written to hundreds of people that have all said the same thing about Oswald, or O. J. Simpson, or anyone they WANT to be innocent. They will often respond, "There is no way they could be THAT guilty. There is TOO much evidence against them. No one is THAT guilty. If there is TOO MUCH evidence against someone it actually disproves their guilt. They HAD to be framed by a much larger conspiracy." This twisted logic and convoluted thinking makes me sit and thank the heavens that these people are NOT in the medical profession. Can you imagine people with thinking skills like that as your doctor? "Well ma'am. I understand that you think you are pregnant, but I've run three different tests and all came up positive, I've taken a sonogram and I can see the tiny baby inside your tummy, you haven't had a period for now for five months...therefore it is my professional opinion that you cannot be pregnant. NO ONE looks that pregnant. It must be some sort of trick."

7. Belief is conspiracies is fun, exciting, and rebellious. Forget the fact that no evidence exisits to support your bizarre claims, it is fun to be the non-conformist. It gives these people the feeling that they are Bernstein and Woodward, hot on the trail of Nixon in the summer of 1972 as the Watergate slowly unravelled. However one must remember, that complicated and convoluted plot was soon unraveled. The conspiracies listed above are suposed to have stood for years (some decades) and NEVER have they been proven. Try as the conspiracy lovers have attempted, they still have no solid proof of even one of them. When asked WHY there is no proof, they never bat an eye.....




Easy. The conspirators have eliminated all evidence. We will never. And that is the ONLY accurate statement they make--THEY will never know.

Answer 2

Fine prove to me we landed on the moon. How do you do that? You can't take me to the moon can you? NASA says that we can't send a manned mission to the moon. Which begs the question of how did we fall behind? So what do you show me? "Moon Rocks" that can be found in Antartica? As to Area 51 it is a real place for the record. It is even a Top Secret base. They admit to that much. I don't know what really goes on there but then again we never will. The British KNEW that Pearl Harbor was a likely target for the Japanese. They weren't sure. The Japanese broke off radio communication so the British couldn't keep listening but they knew to a degree where the Japanese were headed. Also the Japanese WARNED us of Pearl Harbor, but bad weather kept the communication from reaching Pearl Harbor as we didn't get the warning from Japan until that day. That was their goal. Bushido code(I believe) says you never attack a sleeping enemy, you wake them before attacking. As to the Warren Commission it is pretty much proven fact that they were focused on proving it was a one man attack. That man was Oswald.

Answer 3

I don't believe in conspiracies, except conspiracies on higher levels of companies. Honestly, where's the point?

Answer 4

weak minded people believe the first explanation and do not want any investigations to rattle their little cage sounds like...YOU

Answer 5

And your point is...?