Conspiracy Theories

[Edward A Moore]

I think theories to explain an effect that list an alternate (possibly
far-fetched) cause
in a way shape a conspiracy theory shell.

I can definitely see psychoanalyis as structuring a different
cause-effect linkage.

Maybe that's what people want. . .to somehow view their "effect"/behavior
as "caused" by something other than "conventional" reasons.

ed

>From Gravity's Rainbow
http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C

cause and effect

"these things explode first, a-and then you hear them coming in" 23;

"'The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was false.
[...] Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that
ought to be inseparable....'" 30;

"in his play [Mexico] wrecks the elegant rooms of history, threatens
the idea of cause and effect itself." 56;

"No effect without cause, and a clear train of linkages" 89;

"'there's a feeling about that cause-and-effect may have been taken as
far as it will go [...] The next great breakthrough may come when we
have the courage to junk cause-and-effect, entirely, and strike off at
some other angle'" 89;

. . . .

"When one event happens after another with this awful regularity, of
course you don't automatically assume that it's cause-and-effect" 144;

"'You're the cause-and-effect man,' she cried. How did he connect
together the fragments he saw while his eyes were open? He was the
cause-and-effect man" 159;

"Parallel, not series. Metaphor. Signs and symptoms. Mapping on to
different coordinate systems." 159;

. . . .

"some promise of events without cause" 253;

"Freud [...] facing a similar violation of probability--all those Papi
has-raped-me stories" 272;

"his wife bitched at Pökler for dozing off, ridiculed his engineer's
devotion to cause-and-effect" 579;

"You will want cause and effect. All right." 663;

"he'll be left only with Cause and Effect, and the rest of his sterile
armamentarium" 752;