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(This page will redirect to the new location in 60 seconds, unless you select a link option) There are frequent and varied uses of this 'Concept' to challenge and undermine alternative ways of perceiving and understanding people, institutions & systems and to explain strange, or otherwise inexplicable events. This 'concept', or perhaps it is better described as a 'put down', has become a generalised way of 'dismissing' anything that challenges conventional thinking, or provides an alternative perspective on an unresolved, or inadequately resolved problem. Fear and self interested are the biggest motivator in using this term, in this way, these days. I am not sure how genuine the original 'concept' was. There is certainly a tendency for people to explain things by some means, whenever they can. When 'learned' theories and explanations prove inadequate (as they often do - it is their nature), people tend to assume, or develop their own theories. These can be evidenced based, or flights of fancy. They are often interesting and can carry some significant element of truth, even when fed by some measure of paranoia. It is in the nature of human beings, since they started to 'think', as we know it, to develop belief systems to explain the unexplained and the inexplicable. This is how philosophy developed and then science. It is also how we manage our day-to-day problems, etc. We all establish 'hypotheses' of a kind and test these out and then build up a loose theory of what is happening and try out in the world. Complex conversation would be impossible without this verbalised, intuitive process. Some of these belief systems are seriously 'evidence based' and quite rigorous, some are clearly not in any way, and some don't even pretend to be. They are just beliefs of cause and effect - they are 'intuitive and inform us well about issues, events & coincidence, even if not so well about causation. So, where did the idea of 'Conspiracy Theory' come from? Does it have valid roots or, is there a Conspiracy Theory about Conspiracy? Lets check it out: It is all a 'conspiracy theory', many ordinary people will say; having studied the newspapers; listened to learned politicians and discussed it with their mates down the pub, or in the supermarket. Professionals are a little more cautious, having burned their professional fingers more than twice, but many of them too, will privately suggest the problems are exaggerated. Dismissing the 'emotional' arguments of people who have been abused, or badly treated, as being of the 'conspiratorial' and rather paranoid kind. Read More |
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