04-11-2014, 04:52 PM
The use of "conspiracy theory" to kill any argument no matter how well reasoned, evidenced, or substantiated is something that drives many of us here crazy. But we know that a double standard is in play about this by the media and opinion formers. They can simply and baldly assert their side of the argument (as Rentoul's answer to you "No, it hasn't"), whereas we on this side generally have to provide a clear and honest argument.
It's a rigged game that is wholly based on knowledge that the public is thoroughly trained in thought-myopia, kept in the dark about reality and taught to digest bullshit instead of facts. And so long as the media continues to possess control of information and news, this is going to continue. Fortunately, they are slowly, but surely, losing control of information spread thanks to the internet (fingers crossed anyway)
Personally I never saw much to favour Baker's book on Dr. David Kelly's homi-sui-cide. I think he probably got to the truth of it but even so refrains from pointing an accusing finger at the Israel-USA-UK nexus - preferring unlikely actors, principally Iraqi, as the probable culprits. Which is BS obviously.
For me he was less than courageous, and rather more typical of a pol, by bottling it.
It's a rigged game that is wholly based on knowledge that the public is thoroughly trained in thought-myopia, kept in the dark about reality and taught to digest bullshit instead of facts. And so long as the media continues to possess control of information and news, this is going to continue. Fortunately, they are slowly, but surely, losing control of information spread thanks to the internet (fingers crossed anyway)
Personally I never saw much to favour Baker's book on Dr. David Kelly's homi-sui-cide. I think he probably got to the truth of it but even so refrains from pointing an accusing finger at the Israel-USA-UK nexus - preferring unlikely actors, principally Iraqi, as the probable culprits. Which is BS obviously.
For me he was less than courageous, and rather more typical of a pol, by bottling it.
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