We tend to think of conspiracy thinking as "irrational" or "illogical," but in fact it is actually overly rationalistic: it plugs in every empirical detail into a simple logical structure, "the theory can explain all."
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Well, also anticlericalism is conspiratorial as well.
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And that's not so much a reaction as a part of the thrust.
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The problem is now people are calling any conspiracy a theory to discredit it.
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Yep... the only tiny problem with such "theories" being that they explain everything, i.e., nothing. Not falsifiable.
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There was a big "scandal" about Masons in the gov't in Portugal as recently as 2012
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There was a scandal about the Masons c 1850. They covered up a murder by a member. Lost a lot of prestige in USA.
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Hm. Strongly disagree. Think roots are in Christianity — if you trace blood libel conspiracy theories through the Middle Ages and up into Infowars’ Clinton “spirit cooking” conspiracy, for example, it’s remarkably consistent.
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Obviously Xian anti-Semitic blood libel is the ur-conspiracy theory but transformed in Enlightenment with essential extra ideas (secret cabals, historical agency).
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