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- From: gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Secret Societies
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.231816.22283@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:18:16 GMT
- References: <1k04uiINNfp6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan25.150258.2555@ccsvax.sfa <1993Jan25.225826.28392@starbase.trincoll.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.225826.28392@starbase.trincoll.edu> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.150258.2555@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu wr
- >ites:
- >>
- >>I find it unreasonable that anyone would discredit the basic idea of
- >>"conspiracy theory" although there are obviously those who do it.
- >>I certainly don't find it unreasonable that one might discredit any
- >>given conspiracy theory as we all read the data differently. I ask
- >>myself: Why would anyone discredit the basic concept of conspiracy
- >>theory?
- >
- >Why would anyone discredit the basic concept of elves and leprechauns?
- >
- >>Could someone's attack on conspiracy theory
- >>in general [or against particular important conspiracy theories] be part
- >>of a conspiracy? Could they be on the payroll for this? Could such
- >>a conspirator be unwitting and not think of themselves as being part
- >>of a conspiracy but instead accept the myth that they are doing
- >>mankind a great service by helping to mid-wife a great new age. Is
- >>the "New World Order" far enough along where its proponents can
- >>finance propagandists to tailor articles and rebuttals for specific
- >>needs or does it have enough volunteers who've bought its line and
- >>spew forth its dogma.
- >
- >Shall I be the first to confess? Very well, I confess. I've been on
- >college payrolls for 40 years and I've been teaching students the sub-
- >versive doctrine that the burden of proof rests with the person who
- >proposes a theory or proposition.
- >
- >>
- >>If there were such a conspiracy by anti-conspiratorialists, how would
- >>we ever know? We could only suspect.
- >
- >No need to suspect. It's a dead certainty.
- >
- >>-Joe Gaut
- >
- >Norman Miller
-
- Of the different kinds of people in the world, two are especially interesting.
- These are conspiracy theorists, who believe in this or that specific cons-
- piracy, and the anti-conspiracy theorists, who go non-linear at the very
- suggestion of any conspiracy at all. Sometimes the latter do not go com-
- pletely non-linear, or rather they cover up the fact with clever, biting
- humor. Either way, the two types basically never communicate.
-
- Gerry Palo (73237.2006@compuserve.com)
-