From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Jul 28 2002 - 09:49:07 MDT
Alex writes
> >First, highly intelligent people often have trouble
> >accepting that so many stupid things can happen in the world,
> >things committed by governments, corporations, extremely
> >knowledgeable academics, and shrewd people in powerful
> >power. It sort of defies common sense in their minds...
> >[So they believe] there must
> >be a sinister force behind appearances deliberately achieving
> >some of these effects.
>
> I'm not sure...don't you recall realising that most humans were not
> terribly bright during your school days? I distictly remember
> thinking...'It's _not_ my imagination...people really are this dumb...no
> wonder the world is such a mess, etc, etc'...?
Well, in high school I figured that they'd just grow up; I mean,
how much intelligence does it really require to see how much
nonsense there is in the world? But through mostly not caring
about what you and I'd call the truth, and then, as you say, not
being terribly bright to begin with, those people supply the
tabloids and cults with a huge potential market.
But on the other hand, true conspiracy buffs are almost always
very intelligent. They know their stuff, and have usually at
their command far more facts and figures than I do about whatever
it is, the Kennedy Assassination, black helicopters, UFOs, or
whatever. So for these---as opposed to the merely credulous---
I really think my explanation above is part of the answer.
Lee
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