Why Do We Embrace Conspiracy Theories?

[Mark Kohut]

In Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon, too, deals with how the mind has 
to find patterns, yes? I mean in some actual words about same, not just
in the plot pattern...................



----- Original Message ----
From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, May 8, 2011 4:21:44 PM
Subject: Re: Why Do We Embrace Conspiracy Theories?

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?

Ciao
MC


----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, May 7, 2011 4:19:01 PM
Subject: Why Do We Embrace Conspiracy Theories?

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/06/why-do-we-embrace-conspiracy-theories/