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Real0ne -> PsychoToday - Conspiracy Deniars - Its Just Theory! (4/17/2010 6:34:20 PM)
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Its just theory go back to sleep now.
good nite........
This isnt a conspiracy theory, this isnt a œconnection that we invented out of fresh air to make our brains release dopamine, as Gartners bizarre hit piece goes on to claim, its there in black and white, but Gartner has either failed to read the whole document or has performed his own act of psychological gymnastics and summarily dismissed the evidence because it does not fit with his preconceptions “ the very charge he levels at œconspiracy theorists in his hit piece.
Gartner says conspiracy theorists are œimmune to evidence and yet he displays that very trait in this instance.
It isnt long before Gartner regurgitates the tired old cliche about people needing to create conspiracy theories and some semblance of order to make themselves feel better in a chaotic world. He even claims that œfinding meaning in sometimes insignificant events creates dopamine, an overproduction of which can lead to schizophrenia. Of course, none of this has any relation whatsoever to powerful people planning the future of the planet that they rule (a ridiculous œconspiracy theory in Gartners mind), but Gartners objective isnt to disprove the claims of Alex Jones in a logical manner, its to denounce the messenger using convoluted and ham-fisted psychological rhetoric that isnt even applicable.
But whats good for the goose is good for the gander. The greatest purveyors of myths and œconspiracy theories about political events have and always will be authorities and governments.
Scientists who recently investigated why so many people believed the falsehood that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 found that Americans wanted to believe that Iraq was connected to 9/11 because it helped them make sense of current reality. How is that any different from the claim that conspiracy theorists invent connections to help them better comprehend current events?
Beyond the accusations of who invents what to justify their worldview “ conspiracists and debunkers alike “ are the facts.
History is littered with political conspiracies that actually happened and were not the manifestation of unstable minds.
Indeed, history tells us that the bigger the lie, the bigger the conspiracy, the more likely the masses are to believe it, and governments throughout the ages have harnessed this trick to pursue their agendas since time began.
In such an environment, those who aggressively question the official authodoxy, or œconspiracy theorists as Gartner labels them, should be welcomed as a key bulwark against the kind of tyranny and oppression that has blighted the world at numerous intervals in the past, aided in no small part by the quack psychologists in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany that classified skepticism of the state as a mental illness, an implication Gartner regurgitates in his hit piece.
It was not deception on behalf of œconspiracy theorists that convinced Germans to follow Adolf Hitler, the lies that built the Nazi tyranny came directly from the state. It was not the beliefs of œconspiracy theorists that hoodwinked Americans into thinking Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that particular œbig lie came directly from the lips of the President of the United States.
œWere all conspiracy theorists to some degree, writes Gartner and never has a truer word been spoken.
Gartner has to be the biggest conspiracy theorist of all because he seems to hold the ludicrous belief that powerful men do not get together and plan things, which in Gartners mind is a viewpoint indicative of a psychotic mind.
As is always the case, the debunker, in this case Gartner, completely fails to grasp that his stance is completely out of touch with modern day sentiment. He poses as some kind of authority figure casting down his disdain upon the bedraggled minority of œconspiracy theorists below, yet he is in the minority.
It is Gartners twilight zone world of angelic governments who commit no sin except within the twisted minds of dangerous psychotics, in light of admitted conspiracies that continue to be exposed on an almost daily basis “ the phony terror alerts, the cronyism of the banker bailout, the torture scandal, that represents a genuine display of psychotic thinking.
Gartner is really scraping the barrel when he unearths a 7-year-old incident about a disturbed man attempting to enter Bohemian Grove carrying guns in an effort to portray conspiracy theorists, an in particular Alex Jones, as a physical danger to society.
In reality, the kind of warped thinking that Gartner embraces, that skepticism of government is a form of mental illness, is one of the most dangerous threats to a free society that ever existed.
As we have seen before in history, the designation of political opinions deemed to be antagonistic towards or even merely skeptical of the state as a psychological illness is a hallmark of tyranny.
In the former Soviet Union, "psikhushkas" (mental hospitals) were used by the state as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally.
The Soviet state began using mental hospitals to punish dissidents in 1939 under Stalin.
According to official Soviet psychiatry and the Moscow Serbsky Institute at the time, œideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure. Treatment for this special political schizophrenia included various forms of restraint, electric shocks, electromagnetic torture, radiation torture, lumbar punctures, various drugs ” such as narcotics, tranquilizers, and insulin ” and beatings.
Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History, indicates that at least 365 sane people were treated for œpolitically defined madness, although she surmises there were many more.
These kind of œtreatments for the œmental illness of being a conspiracy theorist or merely being skeptical of government were brutally enforced by quack psychologists in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, a fact that Gartner, trapped in his bubble of delusion and ignorance of any evidence that contradicts with his preconceptions, claimed to be completely unaware of when we confronted him with it.
Quack psychologists like Gartner who define distrust of authorities and alternative explanations for the œofficial story put out by governments who have repeatedly proven themselves to be liars as a form of psychosis are themselves as mentally unstable as their much vaunted peers “ people like the insane cocaine addict Sigmund Freud and the Nazi child abuser Alfred Kinsey “ and represent a far greater danger to society than the œconspiracy theorists that they so readily seek to denigrate.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=65&contentid=6271&page=2
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