https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-conspiracy-myth/?_page=2
The other day I was amused to read a critique of The Coronation
in which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet
conspiracy theorist. He was so persuasive that I myself almost believed
it.
What is a conspiracy theory anyway?
Sometimes the term is deployed against anyone who questions authority,
dissents from dominant paradigms, or thinks that hidden interests
influence our leading institutions. As such, it is a way to quash
dissent and bully those trying to stand up to abuses of power. One
needn’t abandon critical thinking to believe that powerful institutions
sometimes collude, conspire, cover up, and are corrupt. If that is what
is meant by a conspiracy theory, obviously some of those theories are
true. Does anyone remember Enron? Iran-Contra? COINTELPRO? Vioxx? Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction?
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