Argonaut
Jedi Master
Thanks guys, great session!
This is exactly what I've been trying to convey to a couple of my conspiracy-theorist friends, but I didn't know a clear, concise way to put it until now. Thank you! These friends are perfectly able to accept the existence of "conspiracies," but for some reason they can't wrap their minds around the concept of political psychopaths. It's like a huge blind spot for them; they act as if it's too simplistic to be true. Maybe I'm investing myself too much in trying to "help" them see, but I feel as if they'd accept the idea if they could only grok the logic of it. I'll try explaining it the way you did here and see what they say. Then I'll just let them think however they choose to think.
Laura said:Actually, realizing that there really is no plan of the psychopaths, though there may be short term alliances, and that what they do just sort of happens as a result of their natures, is both comforting AND horrifying. On the one hand, you see all the conspiracy theorists going nuts trying to figure everything out and when there are big holes in their conspiracy theories, they fill them with nonsense, and on the other hand, you have the anti-conspiracy theorists who can point to those glaring holes in the theories to prove that there is no conspiracy. Well, there is and there isn't. Whatever conspiracy really exists, is a conspiracy at a higher level of existence that we may not properly even call a "conspiracy", and it just uses human beings and psychopaths with equal disregard for their future and well-being.
This is exactly what I've been trying to convey to a couple of my conspiracy-theorist friends, but I didn't know a clear, concise way to put it until now. Thank you! These friends are perfectly able to accept the existence of "conspiracies," but for some reason they can't wrap their minds around the concept of political psychopaths. It's like a huge blind spot for them; they act as if it's too simplistic to be true. Maybe I'm investing myself too much in trying to "help" them see, but I feel as if they'd accept the idea if they could only grok the logic of it. I'll try explaining it the way you did here and see what they say. Then I'll just let them think however they choose to think.