How To Create Conspiracy Theories
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
7/25/2023 2:50:09 AM
It is easy to birth conspiracy theories.
All that is required is chronic government stonewalling of reasonable requests for transparency. Then add in high officials serially lying under oath, along with the blatantly unequal application of the law. Institutionalize arguments from authority of politicians and bureaucrats who refuse to adjudicate arguments empirically.
Include the weaponization of investigatory and intelligence bureaucracies. Finish with the transformation of an obsequious media into a mouthpiece of the state. And presto, you end up with a skeptical, cynical public that learns to believe the very opposite from what it is told by elites.
Great summation, its too bad the non believers won't even look at it!!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 7/25/2023 6:03:01 AM (No. 1519848)
When the government wants to control gas stoves and water heaters, the conspiracy theories write themselves.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 7/25/2023 7:55:53 AM (No. 1519907)
If you know someone who has been caught in lies, its natural to be suspicious of anything he might say, forever. If it turns out the guy has NEVER told the truth about anything, it is safer to believe anything other than what he says. Thats where we are with this government.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 7/25/2023 8:06:20 AM (No. 1519910)
Saul Alinsky would have been very proud of the successes of his radical devotees if he were alive today. But, one has to wonder if having a taste of the reality of spending eternity in “Lucifer’s kingdom”, since his death in the early seventies, might have caused some reflection & changed his mind about the qualities of that radical kingdom. Sadly for them, his fellow radicals will join him one day, if they don’t change. They will have eternity to reflect on their past radical community organizing & fundamental transformation successes together. But, they will never be able to change their eternal “community”.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/25/2023 8:19:52 AM (No. 1519919)
Americans have lost trust in everything that has been controlling our lives in the name of legitimate government, including elections, which have historically been our only legal way to change things for the better. Unquestioning belief in the power of authority changed with Donald Trump. He emerged as the one who could destroy the corruption that Washington has become but they were able to undermine and smear him and insert the idiot Joe Biden as a placeholder to continue and intensify their criminal behavior. We are at a tipping point now that our belief in "the system" has been shattered and the opportunity to correct it all lies in our hands. Unfortunately the legal means to do it has been stymied so we have some tough decisions to make.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NamVet70 7/25/2023 8:51:36 AM (No. 1519939)
Global Warming (AGW), and the climate change hoax are one big conspiracy. Elite leaders and governments conspire to use this false theory to extort money and exert control over people. The theft of the 2020 election is another conspiracy. The perpetrators of those crimes call all criticism of their actions a conspiracy theory. There is ample proof of those conspiracies. The media has had much success suppressing the truth, but eventually the truth will prevail.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
greyseal 7/25/2023 9:17:02 AM (No. 1519960)
As noted here, an excellent summation of fact vs. fiction in the swirling bowl of "conspiracy theories" called Washington D.C. Particularly telling is the disparate treatment of the J6 protesters vs. those who burned buildings in D.C. and tried to storm the White House grounds during the "summer of love".
These days you have to assume that when anyone from this administration is speaking, they're lying. It doesn't matter the topic - it can range from something as inconsequential as a change in policies ("No, we're not coming for your water heaters or AC units...!") to deliberate amnesia in sworn testimony before lawmakers. It must be the water in D.C. because it afflicts everyone there - and then they bottle it and export it to wherever it's needed across the U.S. because it seems everyone in government is lying.
They indicted Trump for a phone call to a head of state, but can't seem to see the obvious evidence of graft and thievery in the Biden household. You can't find what you're not seeking I guess...
When will those who see what's happening finally have enough and simply...shrug...?
greyseal
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 7/25/2023 10:31:24 AM (No. 1520028)
And most of these "conspiracy theories" have proven to be the truth after a while when they finally are unable to support their lies any longer and the facts leak out.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/25/2023 10:57:44 AM (No. 1520058)
I think the Left is using AI to come up with the Conspiracy Theories, they're too stupid to do it on their own!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/25/2023 11:43:16 AM (No. 1520120)
Re #9, don't be fooled into believing that "AI" can come up with original or new ideas. It cannot. There is no actual "AI" in the common sense meaning of the word "intelligent", implying an ability to come up with original, unscripted thoughts or ideas.
All this "AI" stuff that they tout is just complex programming, and yes, occasionally if you set a complex program to sort through a huge morass of data, and give that software a series of parameters to sort on and compare - eventually a "nugget" can appear from massive dataset sorting. This is NOT "intelligence" just a totally dumb machine following a rules based sorting process for a long time, far longer than humans would tolerate, or could do in a reasonable amount of time.
Need some huge data processed in some way? Machines can be programmed to do this sort of scut work.
It is NOT "intelligence", but it can be useful, depending on what the goals are. It can be evil, too.
For example, sorting through tons of license plate reader data and putting together a tracking map of where every single person goes, which can be popped up on demand.
THAT is pure evil. It is doable today, and is NOT "AI", just programming.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/25/2023 11:51:10 AM (No. 1520131)
In all of these cases, “conspiracy theories” = proven facts.
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