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The distinctive thing about hardcore conspiracy theorists is that they don't base their ideas on reality (reality as perceived by non-conspiracy theorists). The
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
The distinctive thing about hardcore conspiracy theorists is that they don't base their ideas on reality (reality as perceived by non-conspiracy theorists). They are not truly skeptics, because their skepticism is selectively applied. They are typically willing to believe anything they hear, just so long as it comes from another conspiracy theorist who shares the belief that everything the government says is a lie. So skepticism isn't the issue; the issue is staying in touch with reality -- specifically a reality that a variety of people can agree on.
- pizza234 13y agoThere's no such thing as "reality". Until a short time ago, the idea that some state would extensively spy into his and other countries people's communications would have been labelled as a conspiracy theory. Now that the documents have uncovered what's going on, it's not a conspiracy theory anymore. I understand that some people have ideas based on extremely unlikely scenario. But nonetheless, the reality you write about is based on what's available. How do you know what's not available? The article is confusing, but it has a point, and it's that the governments of the countries listed (there is clear winner in numbers...) have essentially sold their morale for political purposes, regardless of it having the form of faking of terrorism, or masking war crimes. I think that some of them arrived to the point of thinking that sacrificing a few (dozens? hundreds? thousands?) of their citizen for such purposes, would be reasonable.
- diminoten 13y agoHold on, yes there is such a thing as 'reality'. It's the independent and objective causality chain. The tree falling in the woods is reality.