Why Do We Embrace Conspiracy Theories?

[Michael F]

"Why Do We Embrace Conspiracy Theories?"

Conspiracy theories are the product of a radically egalitarian society.

Schope puts it best:

"While the ordinary person's cognitive faculty is the lantern that
illuminates his path, the sun is what reveals the world to the genius.
 These so different manners of looking into life will soon make
themselves evident in externals."

Paragraph 221 "The World as Will and Presentation"

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure about how the question is worded, but it certainly is worthy of
>> discussion. I wonder what other P-listers made of the article. I'll reserve my
>> own view for now. Dave, what did you think?
>
> ... seeing as all a consoiracy ultimately is is two or more people
> gathered in, well, something's name, why is "conspiracy theory"
> necessarily a perjorative, is my question?  Sometimes, they're
> "simply"/"just"/whatever explanations ...
>