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Conspiring by the Ranks
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 by admiralA few days ago I had a rather odd thought. If I had normal thoughts, then I would not be much of a stand up philosopher. Something had to distract my fragmented mind from the trouble that I am having with this ergonomic keyboard. I have got to get my flat keyboard working again. This keyboard is not well suited to me.
Where was I? Okay, I came across a reference in an editorial to a poster of Ernesto Che Guevera in the campaign offices of a presidential candidate that was not Girdy. This candidate had been backed by the relatives of a former, not Girdy, president. Conspiratorial history says that this former president who was neither Girdy nor Herman was killed for opposing Castro’s pure form of Communism. If I was more specific in that mess then you would be thinking about more important matters than the rest of my tirade and you would never know what thought came to me.
Do all the conspirators in a conspiracy have to believe in the same thing? There is an idea that I have termed ‘death by natural causes.’ It implies that nobody would question an assassination if the victim dies of something that we expect him to die from. The organic mind is very good at finding patterns and we often get trapped in them. Nobody questions the overdose of an addict.
So, if a conspiracy requires an assassination, would it not be best to have the assassin kill the target for his own reasons? Doesn’t everybody have enemies? If not, then how about a terrorist bombing of a building related to an emotional issue? Would anybody question a victim who happened to be walking by? Love is not the only blind emotion.
Why would it be necessary for everybody in a conspiracy to be in it for the same thing? Propaganda is all about the manipulation of perception. Many people would work together toward the same end for a variety of reasons. I often liken such conspiracies to a psychological disease spreading in the population. If nothing else, it is something to think about.
