eleven bravo wrote:
conspiracy nuts invest so much emotion in their belief that they refuse to recognize or acknowledge any other answer than the one they are looking for
JohnG@lt wrote:
Sounds like religion.
Conspiracy Theory, Religion, UFOs & Alien Abduction,
X-Files.
Same root cause;
To not be so much of a sarcastic ass about it;
Humans have an innate drive to understand, order, and organize their environment.
More so than any other creature, that need to make sense of our environment defines humanity.
When that desire for the world to follow a controlled path exceeds our ability to understand or control, we fall back on
belief.
We make up stories around the campfire, to distract us from the dark, and pretend there is something protecting us from the growls in the woods.
And that gets most of the tribe through the night.
Gods, Demons, dictators, Illuminati, The Man, Hitler, Stalin, Saddam - or - Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Yahweh
Good or Evil, as long as there is something in charge, and rules that can be understood - people can live with that.
A random, capricious, uncaring, uncontrolled universe, however.. Something about that frightens people in a deep, primitive, instinctual way.
Reminds me of;
Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the differenceWish people would repeat that to themselves a little more, and blindly grasp at ill-conceived fairy tales a little less.
Last edited by rdx-fx (2010-08-13 11:48:55)