Yeah. I actually would love to believe it. That would mean our government was a bunch of Jason Bournes, when in fact, they really are a bunch of Inspector Jacques Clouseaus. Damn.
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theresa - Aug 25, 2007 11:06:06 pm PDT #6853 of 10001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Jesse - Aug 26, 2007 3:41:54 am PDT #6854 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Some people are nuts, that's all.
Nutty - Aug 26, 2007 4:45:22 am PDT #6855 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
And discovered that one friend has become a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Into total tin-hat territory
I was going to say: you've diagnosed the problem right there. Conspiracy theories are a strategy for coping with powerlessness: they say, we know what really happened; we have power over that historical event; we will agitate to set things right because nobody else will. Arcane knowledge of details, a built-in mission of virtue, a paranoid sense of persecution and/or apathy in the general public? Total built-in ego-stroke.
Also, I tend to think conspiracy theorists are people who suffer from too structured a frame of reference onto the world. The theory always hinges on a couple of random details that are unresolved, or don't make a lot of sense, or are just weird and random. Better to leap into conspiracies than to admit that sometimes weird and random and hard-to-explain things happen! There is no such thing as events in real life that don't make a lot of sense!
Theodosia - Aug 26, 2007 4:51:04 am PDT #6856 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
A week or two ago, This American Life had an English blogger who chronicled the Underground bombings in London confronting homegrown conspiracy theorists who believed that it was electrical surges being covered up by the government. She was like, "I was on the bloody train! I heard the explosion! I saw the bodies!" and they just told her that she was a paid agent of the conspiracy.
bon bon - Aug 26, 2007 5:20:24 am PDT #6857 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Arrgh. Citibank.com is not working and my cc bill is due in two days!
Also, after about two weeks of dithering, I finally decided on a two-day vacation to the Jersey shore. Leaving in a couple hours.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2007 5:27:32 am PDT #6858 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm going to be on the Jersey shore tomorrow! Maybe I'll see you.
Zenkitty - Aug 26, 2007 5:28:46 am PDT #6859 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Jersey shore where?
she asked from Jersey, not particularly near the shore.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2007 5:29:52 am PDT #6860 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I dunno -- I'm staying with a friend in Lawrenceville tonight, and then to the beach!
Zenkitty - Aug 26, 2007 5:31:40 am PDT #6861 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm betting you're going somewhere near Belmar, then. Ahh, beach.
bon bon - Aug 26, 2007 5:31:53 am PDT #6862 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Spring Lake, then Six Flags!