The Trouble With Conspiracy Theories
I got friends. I talk to some of these friends about politics. And every now and then, a friend will start talking about something that she or he will not say is a conspiracy, but contains all of the elements thereof. A small group of the uber-rich trying to destroy the world for their own gain, as an example, or the Jew-run media, as another. And here is where I balk, and I try to convince them that their theories have a crack in them.
What’s the crack? Well, a conspiracy could theoretically take place over a single generation. That’s possible. A small group of powerful people could agree to do something sneaky, and they might be able to convince other people to go along and keep mum about it. This I will admit.
But where a conspiracy theory fails is when the events described as being part of the conspiracy take place over several generations, over different cultures and different time periods. That’s when the conspiracy theorists tend to argue that the conspiracy is passed down through families, and that’s a big problem.
Why? Because anybody who has raised children will tell you: they are unreliable vessels of our ideas. Yes, your children could grow up to be tiny versions of you. But it’s just about as likely that they’ll rebel and disown all of your wisdom. So if indoctrinated children are the lynchpin of your view of history, you may want to rethink everything you think you know.
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