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No conspiracy theory requried, as it does not require /intention/ on the part of the NSA. This can simply be Pavlov-style reinforcement: misguided ideas get amp
by pdkl95 13y ago
No conspiracy theory requried, as it does not require /intention/ on the part of the NSA. This can simply be Pavlov-style reinforcement: misguided ideas get amplified by rewarding the behaviour with budget increases.
- coldtea 13y ago>No conspiracy theory requried Conspiracy doesn't mean aliens and Disney being frozen. It just means people/organisations doing something together in secret. What the NSA and partners have done is very much a conspiracy -- by definition. As the great writer Gore Vidal once put it, "Americans have been trained by media to go into Pavlovian giggles at the mention of 'conspiracy' because for an American to believe in a conspiracy he must also believe in flying saucers or, craziest of all, that more than one person was involved in the JFK murder."
- pdkl95 13y agoMy point being they that the conditioning/feedback-loop may exist even in the case where the people involved are not aware of it. It is possible to have agents working independently, on their own compartmentalized pieces of the larger mission, each being influenced in a (apx) similar manner.Given the history of the NSA (and FBI) I would wager there probably is a significant amount of conspiracy in the department. Money is a powerful conditioning force, and humans miss the "obvious" things that are influencing them all the time.