I was considering how many lies have been taught in history classes and the apriori justifications for those lies and I realized, it isn’t so absurd to think that all of the conspiracy theories of history are true.
Indeed, at least all of the ones I know are all consistent and coherent with each other when understood from an austrian view point.
Are austro-libertarians not the perfect contrarians?
This reminded me of one of my favorite quotes:
"“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
or the newer version
“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity” - Robert Heinlein
Yes, they are all true. Including the one about the walking gnome in Argentina.
No. If they were known to be true, they would be conspiracy facts.
I must confess I used to laugh at all of them, usually saying “next time they’ll say Elvis has been kidnapped by the Pope!”. The 9/11 came and I haven’t been so sure about it…
Yes, same here! I was too young when 9/11 to have anything resembling coherent opinions about the attacks at the time. But, now at the age of 18, I’ve moved from being RAH!RAH!RAH! It’s war to having absolutely no opinion about the subject. I think there’s many lacunas present in the government’s case and I feel that it would certainly be the right thing to do keep my mouth shut about the subject for the time being. However, I think it’s safe to say that the case is inconclusive for the time being.
I usually don’t voice my thoughts because I’m afraid to be labeled with pejorative monikers like : 9/11 truther, crank, heretic etcetera.
Um, I hope you know those are sitting gnomes? [^o)]
Some conspiracy theories contradict each other, so no.
they do but only if taken at face value. Instead they have to be given a more austrian/praexological interpretation to work. In terms of curve fitting they work marvelously well at explaining motives, outcomes, and the day-to-day nitty-gritty of politics, basically all of history.
A lot of conspiracy theories are facts, but when it makes the State look bad it’s simply theory with no fact. Plus, a lot are not accepted by the majority (and sometimes what the majority accepts is actually the wrong story due to propaganda, lies, and manipulation).
There’s an article by Rothbard on this: The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisted
“There are, of course, good conspiracy analysts and bad conspiracy analysts, just as there are good and bad historians or practitioners of any discipline. The bad conspiracy analyst tends to make two kinds of mistakes, which indeed leave him open to the Establishment charge of “paranoia.” First, he stops with the cui bono; if measure A benefits X and Y, he simply concludes that therefore X and Y were responsible. He fails to realize that this is just a hypothesis, and must be verified by finding out whether or not X and Y really did so.”
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“Secondly, the bad conspiracy analyst seems to have a compulsion to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs, into one giant conspiracy. Instead of seeing that there are several power blocs trying to gain control of government, sometimes in conflict and sometimes in alliance, he has to assume – again without evidence – that a small group of men controls them all, and only seems to send them into conflict.”
I believe a lot of conspiracies, and I’ve come to review good evidence and research and bad evidence and research for the same theory. There’s a lot of theories I believe that I’m sure some on this group would disagree with and try to offer evidence of why, and I could offer evidence in support of my theory, but I don’t find whether or not to go into theories that important on this forum.
Only if you don’t believe in the ‘conspiracy theory’ of COINTELPRO…
What the hell is that Jonathan.. That’s freaking creepy, I’m going to have nightmares about gnomes now! Was that a joke wth was that?
To be honest, I’m afraid too…better keep the night-light on tonight.
Nvm apparently it was a little man.. But, still that is nightmare worthy material. Sorry if I seemed a wee bit shocked right there, but that’s the first time I’ve seen that.
On a lighter note, this appeared on YouTube yesterday and I just had to share it.
And I thought the gnomes in Arcanum were creepy.
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I think he means that if a gov. conspiracy would be revealed then it would make the state look bad so those conspiracies are called “theories” to deprive them of truth value.
OK, yes, that makes sense- thanks for clearing that up.