Dougie... An interesting subject, but I've not found a way to access the
full 'study'. Yet the Abstract speaks volumes ('a word, to the wise, is
sufficient'). Still, 'one swallow does not make a summer', and it would be
nice to read the whole megillah.
Note what Murray N. Rothbard has to say about how 'The State' (in all its
forms) must suppress (or marginalize, ridicule) conspiracy
hypotheses/theories (except for those it ...'The State' ... needs to
justify its actions):
*It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an
aversion to any "conspiracy theory of history;" for a search for
"conspiracies" means a search for motives and an attribution of
responsibility for historical misdeeds. If, however, any tyranny imposed by
the State, or venality, or aggressive war, was caused not by the State
rulers but by mysterious and arcane "social forces," or by the imperfect
state of the world or, if in some way, everyone was responsible ("We Are
All Murderers," proclaims one slogan), then there is no point to the people
becoming indignant or rising up against such misdeeds*.https://mises.org/
library/anatomy-state/html/c/33
Regarding the use of "'double inverted commas around 'nouns' and
'adjectives'... It's not clear what alternative one has in those cases
where the premises or facts are questioned and/or disputed. Doing this when
critiquing statements (using double inverted commas) indicates doubt,
which... as To Mega Therion pointed out, is so often far more reliable than
faith:
*I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and
danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.*
<https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/crowley/lies/48.htm>
Marx and his many historical predecessors held fast to the notion that
there's a huge conspiracy by those who have wealth against those who don't
have wealth. Never mind that, once Marx' loyal true believers got power
they were quick to erect systems at least as repressive (often more
repressive & cruel) as those they claimed to be working to eliminate.
The fact is that, in the Human Process, individuals and groups DO find
ample reasons for secretly working against the interests of the general
public... and are often remarkably creative in their justifications of such
actions. The Doc Watson character in HBO's 'Deadwood' series says it best:
*Doc Cochran*: *I see as much misery outta them movin’ to justify
theirselves as them that set out to do harm.*
As Bob Wilson would often say when closing his messages...'Keep the pizza
flying!'
CF
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 3:20 PM, douglas rankine <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
see url: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0267323111433566
courtesy cryptome
I read this "original" piece of research and came out wondering where the
new or original research was...I couldn't find any. Still, one lives in
hope. Then I started to wonder where they got the money to fund their
research, and, at the end of the article I found out.
Now, I am wondering why, was there some kind of conspiracy going on here?
Were the authorities hoodwinked? Where did the authorities get the money
for this "learned" piece of research...or crap, as I prefer to call
it...us, of course, the tax payer, we funded it, as we do all these
institutions. In case I am accused of being a conspiracy theorist here,
and just because I believe everything in the universe is connected and
interconnected in some way, and because I believe in some conspiracy
theories, though mostly in conspiracies which most conspiracy theorists
don't see, and not in conspiracies that most conspiracy theorists do see,
even though they are sitting there in front of their noses...doesn't mean
to say that I am a conspiracy theorist, but there again beauty and/or the
beast are very much in the eyes of the beholder...:-).
But I suppose that at least the researchers are being honest about
it...see below
quote<<<<
Funding
After writing the article the author and two colleagues, Peter Achterberg
and Dick Houtman, received a research grant at NWO (MaGW; open competition)
for the project 'Conspiracy culture in the Netherlands: Modernity and its
cultural discontents' (assigned September 2011).
end of quote>>>
ATB
"Dougie"
P.S. Conspiracy theorists are well known for their liberal use of double
inverted commas around "nouns" and "adjectives"....;-)
