Somewhere deep in most of our hearts we hold to the common myth that there exists great good, and great evil. That we can find the serpent and remove it's head, and the world will be right again.
I believe this is at the heart of most conspiracy theories. It is this idea that gives us hope, by putting a face on our danger, and declaring a tangable enemy. Something or someone we can fight against directly. More often than not, terrible things happen at random, or because of incompetence, or as the combined effect of many lesser evils commited by otherwise good people.
Most certainly, there are those who will profit from, and take advantage of, and rally together those who have accepted these lesser evils as the way things are, and will always be. Going after them will not change the fact that it is the acceptance of these lesser evils in ourselves, that is the source of our combined misery. It will not change the fact that the worst of us could not thrive without the complicity or the apathy of the rest of us.
When asking for volunteers it is always easier to find soldiers, than social workers. It's easier to battle someone or something you hate, than to help someone you don't know. It's easier to help raise a flag than to help raise a child. It's easier to drop a bomb, than to drop a dollar into the poor box.
Of course, chopping the head off of a serpent now and then can be a good start. It just doesn't replace changing the one person in the world you have the greatest right, ability, and responsability to change.
If you don't know who I'm talking about, I'll give you a hint:
It's the only person allowed to be in the voting booth when you vote.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Conspiracy Theories?
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While this is an interesting theory, thinking more on it, I'm inclined more toward thinking what you've described is the rationale of people who favors war and other decisive and simple actions as a means of resolving problems, than as the way conspiracy theorists see the world.
I think, conspiracy theorists tend to assign blame on complicated sets of enemies, their understanding of which they too often like to use to bully others as a way of feeding into their complexes. "Because I understand the truth, you are a naive fool if you don't. Join with me, and be enlightened, deny, even doubt me, and you are my enemy." Conspiracy theorists also don't seem to even believe there are answers, only more reasons to scream, injustices to expose.
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