Taking History Personally
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The idea that all things are all just emergent phenomena created by laws and economics, that no groups of humans are trying to manipulate things, everybody is incompetent, and nobody is responsible for anything is absurd. It conflicts with reality.
In reality, everyone is engaged in conspiracies. Everyone is trying to manipulate things in some way, and some groups of people have far more influence than others. That's what it means to have power and influence.
It is true that people that are really into conspiracy theories often believe things on far too little evidence. However, that doesn't mean that conspiracies don't exist, or that they are not important.
Example: Operation Iraqi Freedom was predicated on a government conspiracy that Saddam Hussein had nukes.
> rise of the conspiracy theory
narrative is that history is full of really bad conspiracy theories. Stuff like George W. Bush personally riding in on a pegasus and finding the nukes but just as he was going to take them a thousand demons appeared and spirited the nukes away, conclusively proving Hussein's covenant with the devil.
Wtf? People who believe this stuff should have no say on elections