conspiracy theories - some go too far, some not far enough
just a few words on paranoia -
a paranoid's worldview sees the hand of an enemy in events, which he perceives as intentional acts designed to harm him
obviously, it is possible to be too paranoid, and to overinterpret the coherence of historical events and see connections that aren't really there - and to blame many events on a vast conspiracy - the jews, the illuminati, the communists, the jesuits , the "greys"
on the other hand, it is also possible to miss the coherence that is really there - to be oblivious or to have "false consciousness"
it's not easy to know what's really going on, and everyone applies a bayesian approach - we evaluate the probability of new information being accurate based on what we already believe
i try to stick to the middle way - to be appropriately suspicious - the goldilocks principle - neither too much nor too little
as i'm sure most of us here recognize, there really ARE conspiracies - a relatively large number, some working together, some at cross-purposes
at "all spin zone"recently there's been a discussion of the "paranoid shift" - a change of weltanschauung when a person begins to believe that some of the events of recent history really are connected in ways that have been concealed (recall that bush's first choice to chair the 9/11 commission - a commission he hadn't wanted in the first place - was henry kissinger)
woody allen said we stand at a crossroads - one way leads to despair, the other to total destruction - let us hope we make the right choice
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Anybody who isn't paranoid these days has to be nuts.
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'....Arthur Dent exclaims that this explains the feeling he has always had, that there's something going on in the universe that nobody would tell him about. "Oh no" says Zaphod Beeblebrox, "That's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that".'
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Larry - I'm glad you found my original post helpful, but in all modesty I cannot take credit for the educational and recreational opportunities offered here by commenters
there are many roads to free porn, and the "desired college degrees" may or may not be what you really desire - caveat emptor [let the buyer beware]
as neil young has said, "keep on rockin' in the free world" -
or, as the optimistically named band Utopia put it once -
"politicians and dictators
and the guys with the dough
think they run the world
but they really don't know
cause out here on the street
we got it under control
from Berlin to San Francisco
from New York to Tokyo -
One World
It's Our World"
well, sort of - yes and no - but continue with your own plans, and if they are in accordance with destiny, you will reap a rich reward
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