[lit-ideas] Re: Is it any wonder...
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 01:21:00 +0100
Eric: Hi, Simon! Isn't that the post hoc ergo prompter hoc fallacy?
Er....possibly, but I'm taking your word for it.
One could say the Iran Hostage Crisis put Reagan/Bush in office[....] But
wait...Trotsky, Lenin, the Tsars...Alexander Nevsky. Yeah Nevsky...who
defeated the Teutonic Knights. Nevsky = 9/11.
Thanks for that Eric. It's all entirely plausible.
Conspiracies start wherever one decides to start.
They certainly do. But what's great about a conspiracy is that they are
never entirely believable, until, like Iran Contra, or Watergate they are
unearthed. Before the unearthing, people say that it just couldn't happen
and that whoever believes them is an idiot. Which, of course, is sufficient
defence. Yet with 9/11 a huge amount of people do believe it was a
conspiracy of one sort or another. The Bush Administration has had chances
to show why these theories are false, but they haven't complied and that
just leads people to think...
Simon
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