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[kelber at mindspring.com]

Conspiracy theoy seems alive and well.  Has anyone seen that long and garbled video circulating the internet (think it's called Loose Change) charging that 9/11 was staged by the US government?  I've run into lots of people who seriously believe this.  And many people around the globe believe that HIV was created/spread by the US government.  These seem to be sort of paranoid echos bouncing off the very real and overt excesses of US power.

Laura


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>> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>> I think the reason paranoia and secret conspiracy
>>> theory now seem dated is that current conspiracies,
>>> such as the Bush administration, are so transparent.
>>> What's to discover? For us readers, I mean.
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>> Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to
>> the X-Files (New York: Routledge, 2000), Chapter 1,
>> "Conspiracy/Culture," Section II, "Vineland and
>> Visibility," pp. 57-75 ...
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>> "The hidden depths and concealed realms which might
>> encourage countercultural fantasies of a
>> conspiratorial 'We-system' (as Gravity's Rainbow
>> termed it) have thus all but disappeared in the world
>> of Vineland.  Everything has become exposed (to use a
>> film metaphor to which the novel itself is highly
>> attuned) ....  On this reading, then, the final
>> failure of the 1960s underground culture comes about
>> not through any of the conspiratorial fanstasies of
>> apocalypse which the counterculture predicted, but
>> because there is nowhere left to hide.  Everything is
>> visible, and everything is connected, producing a
>> situation in which a routine sense of paranoia is
>> paradoxically both no longer necessary, and more vital
>> than ever." (p. 73)
>>
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706
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>Yes, traditionally conspiracy has depended upon secrecy and silence  
>to effect the desired results. Its methods were primitive,  
>characterized by such things as bombing-tossing and forged documents.  
>This was before science stepped in to make conspiracy a full-blown  
>technology, which our better universities will soon be offering a  
>doctorate in.
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