Conspiracists fantasize facts.
True logic their argument lacks.
They point at cabals,
And issue grand calls.
>From real power their discourse distracts.
haiku
fishing for answers a conspiracy theory guts progressive change
-cb
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Joseph Wanzala Sent: Sat 7/23/2005 1:29 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] conspiracism: manna for community radio
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Indeed, without the handy 'conpiracist' device with which to bludgeon 'oddballs', Doug Henwood and others would actually have to engage with those who have different interepetations of the facts and perhaps come up with some 'conspiracy theories' of their own. Instead, they default to whatever the official position is, and from the relative 'safety' of that position heap derision unpon those trying to figure things out for themselves.
The term 'conspiracy theory', as it is used on this list, is a notion that exists chiefly in the minds of those who deploy the term. It has little or nothing to do with what the recipients of the epithet actually do, say or think.
Joe W.
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