Conspiracy theory nuttersI keep getting collared by a bloke who says that the war in Afghanistan is a cover for our Illuminati Freemason Shapeshifting Lizard masters to corner the market in mind-bending drugs. "It's true," he says, "I heard it on TalkSport". Tell us your stories of encounters with tinfoil hatters.
Thanks to Davros' Granddad
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 13:52)
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why Noam Chomsky isn't a conspiracy theorist.Conspiracy theories seem to be come from the political stream that believes that
a) 'the system' (in the US, the Constitution) is perfect, but
b) everything's fucked up.
How can a perfect system produce terrible results? Well, someone must be stuffing it up. Presumably they must be powerful to be able to subvert the Constitution (or the equivalent). And presumably they wouldn't want anyone to know they were doing such a terrible thing. And once you conclude that, you're three-quarters of the way towards being a conspiracy theorist.
Noam Chomsky, on the other hand, argues that a) is wrong ie that 'the system' is flawed, removing the need for any conspiracy.
Which doesn't stop conspiratards quoting him, much as they quote George Orwell.
In fact mainstream politics is much more 'conspiratorial', in the sense of ascribing everything to individual flaws or deliberate wickedness, than Chomsky and Co.
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Yeah, but Noam Chomsky's a cock.(, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 19:29, closed)
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