- Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:58 am
#615842
OK, the problem with conspiracy theories is as follows - they all rely on 3 assumptions - that a) there are various nefarious schemes going on behind our backs, b) that only a select few people can figure this out, and c) that even so, there's nothing anyone can do about it.
While I'm happy to agree that governments, corporations and individuals get up to dodgy stuff, and that there's stuff going on that we don't know about, what I reject is this idea that there are shadowy string-pullers behind it all. Here's why:
1. It's a load of anti-semitic nonsense. As a Jewish friend of mine once put it, if the worldwide Jewish lobby is so powerful, you'd think that they could do a bit better than Israel, and what's more, there's the stumbling block of getting them all to agree on anything. But yeah, global conspiracy, shadowy tentacles, shadow government, it's all code, and a fairly obvious one.
2. Occam's razor. When the cover-up or "arranged accident" is more complex and unlikely than the at face value explanation, it's a pretty good clue that it's nonsense.
3. If the shadow government is so competent, why aren't they running everything openly?
4. Basic misunderstanding of human nature. People are curious, talkative, inventive. People in conspiracy theories are never any of these things.
5. Big fucking holes. If NASA never went to the moon, how come the Soviets never said anything? Why did they build and launch massive rockets if they weren't going anywhere? Why did they go to the moon to plant evidence of a landing that can be seen from Earth when they may as well have just gone there in the first place?
While I'm happy to agree that governments, corporations and individuals get up to dodgy stuff, and that there's stuff going on that we don't know about, what I reject is this idea that there are shadowy string-pullers behind it all. Here's why:
1. It's a load of anti-semitic nonsense. As a Jewish friend of mine once put it, if the worldwide Jewish lobby is so powerful, you'd think that they could do a bit better than Israel, and what's more, there's the stumbling block of getting them all to agree on anything. But yeah, global conspiracy, shadowy tentacles, shadow government, it's all code, and a fairly obvious one.
2. Occam's razor. When the cover-up or "arranged accident" is more complex and unlikely than the at face value explanation, it's a pretty good clue that it's nonsense.
3. If the shadow government is so competent, why aren't they running everything openly?
4. Basic misunderstanding of human nature. People are curious, talkative, inventive. People in conspiracy theories are never any of these things.
5. Big fucking holes. If NASA never went to the moon, how come the Soviets never said anything? Why did they build and launch massive rockets if they weren't going anywhere? Why did they go to the moon to plant evidence of a landing that can be seen from Earth when they may as well have just gone there in the first place?
Timbo liked this
"There ain't nothing you fear more than a bad headline, is there? You'd rather live in shit than let the world see you work a shovel."