January 2010
7 posts
1 tag
“‘“Is”, “is.” “is” — the idiocy of the...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson
2 tags
“‘But whether they are on the right or the left of the political spectrum,...”
– Birthers, Birchers and the paranoid style of politics - Chicago Tribune
3 tags
Wikipedia entry on Birthers →
“The moguls are not helping matters. They might as well be an alien species. The...”
– Bruce Sterling (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics) (via thisworldwemustleave)
[5] Fragmented Narratives
There is a substantial body of evidence to show that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a hoax and a forgery. Yet the narrative persists: ‘the Jews have a secret plan to take over the world. It was written down in a book’.
Why? The most obvious answer is because for some people it is as Henry Ford said: ‘It fits.’ Conspiracy theories confirm that which they want to...