Jaymac
2008-01-30 06:12:16
My take is that conspiracy theories offer the pleasures of not only being one of the few in the know, but also of cynicism and idealism. Cynicism for the obvious reason. Idealism, because there’s a resistance to believing that the world is such that bad things happen beyond human control. Precisely because the evils are a product of human conniving, they are also humanly solvable. Conspiracy theories happen when naive idealism confronts the ugly facts of life.
