Conspiracy theories are everywhere

Yes, I consider all of the conspiracy theories, it’s a phrase that is too often used to deride people and their ideas.

If you think about it, `conspiracy’ isn’t a theory, it’s something that we constantly experience. Don’t certain governments and organisations constantly conspire to persuade us to accept their ideas?

Quite a few people, not just people on this forum but some politicians and international political commentators, believe that the BBC’s treatment of some news stories and social issues is a conspiracy, a conspiracy to mould attitudes.

Again, some people, including some politicians, believe that socialism is a conspiracy, a conspiracy to persuade us to alter our attitudes and beliefs to fit an ideolology.
It’s strange you should mention my `destroy a nation’s morale’ line. A while after I wrote it I thought that it was a little too vague.
But Saturday night beckoned..
You say that it’s aimed at enslaving us. Interesting. I think that it’s certainly aimed at giving the state a greater role in our lives, at making us subservient to the state, there can be no doubt about that.
Does this amount to slavery? Yes it does, to some people, in fact to quite a few people. And again, these people aren’t just people on this forum.
My view - and the view of many other `ordinary’ people, not just politicians, is that governments should govern lightly rather than heavy-handedly. Labour* hasn’t `got’ this, it believes that constant legislation creates social stability, when in fact it creates the opposite - it creates social instability.
*The British Labour party is the equivalent of the Democratic party in the US
First posted in response to a post about conspiracy theories on the British Democracy Forum on 26/07/08