Comments | princeofcairo: "That Accounts for a Good Deal. It Explains Everything. No Wonder." Conspiracy theory

princeofcairo

"That Accounts for a Good Deal. It Explains Everything. No Wonder." Conspiracy theory

Dec 05, 2003 15:58

Almost all conspiracists fall into, at minimum, one of three camps ( Read more... )

conspiracy theory, 33 interests in 100 words

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multiplexer December 5 2003, 23:42:20 UTC

Now I'm sitting here wondering: am I a desperate loser or a woolly-headed idiot? Is it possible to be both? Can such a thing be true? My GOD! Could I have fuzed the two categories into a SUPERBEING OF INCREDIBLE POWER?

Only time, and the Freemasons, will tell.

multiplexer December 5 2003, 23:43:11 UTC

(Eric, upon reading my post, walked away, asking, "So how long have you been an anti-semite?")

princeofcairo December 6 2003, 10:57:21 UTC

Yes, it is possible to be both. It's quite common to see desperate loser nativists (the KKK, for example), too. David Icke now combines all three, and is skidding down the icy road to anti-Semitism, too, which is a crying shame.

However, you may have run aground on a semantic point: People who believe conspiracy theories are "conspiracists," and they are divided as per the above.

People who study conspiracy theories are "conspiratologists." I don't have enough data to break down the basic types of conspiratologist.

And yes, some people are both conspiracists and conspiratologists, but I wasn't aware that you were in that category.

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princeofcairo December 6 2003, 10:51:34 UTC

It's certainly happened to other Jews before, but I'd need to see samples of your self-loathing before I was prepared to diagnose it.

And in response to your earlier point, yes, conspiracy theory is a religious (or mythopoeic) impulse, pretty clearly.

So "Triumph of the Moon" themagdalen December 6 2003, 02:24:00 UTC

would be an expose' of a certain type of Wooly-Headed Idiot?

Re: So "Triumph of the Moon" luckymarty December 6 2003, 07:22:47 UTC

Yes.

Although Hutton bends over backwards to be kind to them, repeatedly insisting that the fact that modern witchcraft is a valid religion, and professing agnosticism about whether it actually hooks into gneuine spiritual realities. He evidently continues to feel guilty about confronting modern pagans with the historical evidence.

And, to be fair, I don't recall noticing any anti-Semitism in Hutton.

maliszew December 6 2003, 03:25:08 UTC

Nicely summarized. I should frame this.