The Anti-Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy

I always find it funny when die-hard conspiracy theorists moan and groan about how stupid people are for believing conspiracy theories [CTs] that don’t happen to fit the favored CTs’ favored group-think. You know the type. “Our CT is the real truth, your CT is just crazy.”

Blogosphere case in point for best illustration of this phenomenon is Daily Kos, a progressive political site dedicated to electing Democrats, damning Republicans, and spreading the ridiculous idea that all things that might be conspiracies cannot actually BE conspiracies because that would mean the participants in those conspiracies know what’s real, agree amongst themselves to pretend that reality is not real, and are able to keep the reality out of the press and public sphere of knowledge. No one, apparently and according to the Kos powers that be, knows that much about anything.

Of course, that site is the biggest promulgator of the idea that the Bush administration plotted to start a war in Iraq by telling lies to the American public, which is a conspiracy (and not particularly theoretical, given that it actually did happen). And that the whole justification of torture of prisoners that began in 2002 (before said justifications were drafted by the lawyers tasked with justifying) was about gaining false confessions of a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Which would be a conspiracy, even though such things do not exist.

The examples are myriad, and the in-house warfare somewhat hilarious over what conspiracies are kosher (by ruling of the ruling elite) for Kos groupies to believe-in, and what conspiracies may not ever be mentioned under threat of censorship by said ruling elite (which also qualifies as a conspiracy).

One – such as myself – might step back from all this and take the long view, where the ample differences between a CT that claims NASA has photographs of giant alien bases on the moon and a CT that claims the 9-11 commission’s report was a self-serving fiction, are obvious. But that could lead to confusions if one were to notice that often actual members of said conspiracies start coming out of the woodwork years later to proclaim the hoaxes to be hoaxes, full-blown CTs all along.

In the end, one must simply ask one’s self the pertinent questions about events that demand answers, then judge the answers provided on reasonable criteria of evidence and credibility. There may be some American citizens who actually believe a single pristine Magic Bullet caused all the non-fatal wounds to JFK and John Connelly on that fateful 1963 day in Dallas, but no one who was ever truly interested in the subject and who judged the physical evidence realistically would believe it. Heck, members of the Warren Commission in on that fictional account didn’t believe it and have said so publicly for many years!

It is certainly possible to simply not care about or be interested enough in any sort of sociopolitical event that warrants a full investigation to bother committing to any conclusion about whatever the “official story” turns out to be. Such a person will shrug when the subject comes up, won’t bother to defend or decry the whitewash. It simply doesn’t matter to them, and that’s fine. But whenever I see someone stupid enough to argue Magic Bullets to people who know that Magic Bullets don’t exist, or claim that anyone knowing Magic Bullets don’t exist must be “Crazy Conspiracy Theorists,” I want to slap ‘em up side the head. So I usually just walk away, shaking my head at Crazy Conspiracy Theorists who believe in Crazy Conspiracies that are so easily and evidentially demonstrated to BE perfectly sane Conspiracies. No theoretics required.

Conspiracies are a regular way of life in government, industry and media. Secrecy is endemic and enforced by the power of law and executive privilege. We have entire agencies dedicated to nothing but keeping secrets. Other agencies that operate exclusively IN secret. And wherever there are secrets more than a single person knows about, a conspiracy exists. Plain truth.

Another plain truth is that some people don’t care, and others are simply stupid. You’ll have this.

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