10-05-2013, 09:18 AM
The drawback with a great many academics, and many other professionals in fact, is that they decline to acknowledge conspiracies occur. I very much suspect that their fear is that they will be tarred with the smelly brush of "conspiracy theorist". See, for example, the post I just put up on the Boston bombing article by Paul Craig Roberts and his run in with the Huffington Post reporter. You can smell the fear and panic the journalist felt when he realised Roberts was in the 911 camp.
But the whole argument about conspiracy theories is simply fallacious, illogical and artificially contrived.
Conspiracy is part of human nature and, as such, form part and parcel of daily life - at every level (Caesar and Brutus being a classic historical case of the genre). It is ludicrous to suggest otherwise, but denial has become deeply embedded in the fear receptors of modern man's psyche. It is now better to duck and hide from the glaring truth than utter it. This intellectual dishonesty is about retaining prestige and surviving in the professional jungle.
denial of conspiracy defines ethical weakness in my opinion.
But the whole argument about conspiracy theories is simply fallacious, illogical and artificially contrived.
Conspiracy is part of human nature and, as such, form part and parcel of daily life - at every level (Caesar and Brutus being a classic historical case of the genre). It is ludicrous to suggest otherwise, but denial has become deeply embedded in the fear receptors of modern man's psyche. It is now better to duck and hide from the glaring truth than utter it. This intellectual dishonesty is about retaining prestige and surviving in the professional jungle.
denial of conspiracy defines ethical weakness in my opinion.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14