From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 02:02:29 MDT
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Walter
joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Believe it or not, I actually read the entire 73k post (none of mine were
> close to that long), as an academic exercise, and what I found
> confirmed my recent Phenomenology of Conspiracy Theorists with an
> accuracy and precision that amazed even me. Even though one group
> was killing millions of the other a mere half-century ago, the Nazis and
> the Jews were both there, as were the Communists, the Illuminati, in
> fact, all the usual conspiracy nut suspects who are supposedly playing
> 'great and powerful wizard' and pulling the power levers behind the
> curtain/veil. Even after I cored this psychopathology's particular apple
> and stripped it bare for all onlist to see, Scat had to be flung, for these
> people are obsessive-compulsive about seeding their memes, be they
> about Elvis and the Space Aliens or the proverbial and dreaded
> Nazi/Illuminati Global-Takeover-and-Enslavement connection. The
> only reason I can think for him to do so is that he can feel such an
> unreasoning and visceral hatred of Dubya from many on this list that he
> has to be hoping that the sheer emotional intensity of it will override
> rational and logical filters and hook this nonsense into a craving cortex
> or two. The Fundy Christian Right cannot have hated Clinton more -
> and we all saw what wild demon-spawn theories they were
> subsequently inspired to hatch. Don't be seduced by raw animus into
> being unreasoning doppelgangers of them, on opposite poles but both
> poles bereft of their senses.
-- Walter Watts Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc. "No one gets to see the Wizard! Not nobody! Not no how!"
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