Is there a conspiracy to generate conspiracy theories?

I am sure there is a push for certain conspiracies to get amplified for certain gains. On the other hand, there are sometimes real reasons to mistrust the government.

“Did William and Kate really get married? Story at 9.”

Why, what did you hear?
No just a lot of paranoid people. With nothing better to do most of the time.
But everytime a secret gets found out all of a sudden there were these huge conspiracy. Yeah, most of the time its just that in telling the citizens what is going on, you are also telling your enemies. Some secrets don’t need to be told. Especially if they can potentially cause harm to our citizens and our military.
I remember Desert Storm and Desert Sheild. The media gave aways so many of our guys locations. My husband was there at the time. I remember screaming at the TV set, “You freaken idiots”! Stop telling the enemy where to aim there weapons!
And I can understand people in this country not wanting the pictures revealed with our guys sitting in the middle or hostile territory.

Haha you’re right, your number one and two don’t quite work. The government can’t be stupid and incompetent if they’re able to spin the conspiracies some suspect they create.

I always figured that the government are the ones to push out alien sighting stuff, as an attempt to take away some attention from them as they screw us over. Well that’s just me being silly. But while I’m not sure I believe some of the more extravagant stuff, I’m pretty sure the face we see isn’t always all there is, but my own suspicions draw away from the subject of conspiracies.

Well, @ETpro , I guess that explains why Spoony THE Cat is constantly preventing your wife from speaking….......... ;-)

I think there is a Conspiracy Generator on one of the Fox Network web pages.

I googled Conspiracy Generator and got this link: http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/generator.html

It is nice to know that when your tin foil hat wears out there is a place to go to help you generate new theories. By the way, I heard that Glenn Beck is an alien bred by Ann Coulter, and Donald Trump, two well known aliens.

Thanks for the question, I would have never heard of this important site without it.

There’s a certain type of person who looks for the hidden ‘truth’ behind big events. They conclude that because the media and/or government has manufactured and concealed facts in the past, that therefore every major announcement has a secret truth behind it. If you look for it, you will find evidence of it, because everything looks like evidence when you’re looking for it.
It’s a really alluring addictive mindset.
Because there’s something empowering about the thought that the masses have it wrong, and you know the truth. I believe that sensation (of empowerment) is what conspiracy addicts are chasing.

The problem with all this information at our fingertips is all this MISinformation at our fingertips. Who knows what to believe any more? The media and government have a vested interest in presenting events from a certain angle (Fox news, anyone?) This doesn’t sit well with some people, and some of THOSE people turn to the conspiracy websites to get their ‘facts.’ Maybe they should – who the hell knows any more?

If they had video footage of Osama being shot and using six live babies as human shields, I guarantee that within minutes that video would be pulled apart and all the visual effects seams would be pointed out. Even if that video was 100% untouched. If aliens landed in Times square, no one would believe it until they saw it with their OWN eyes. How else could you convince everyone? Footage? Photos? After Effects. Photoshop.

Truth isn’t truth any more. It is what you believe, that’s what makes it true. For you.

Now let’s all watch kittens on youtube! ☺

It’s alleged that JFK & Elvis pondered this very same topic on board a spaceship which flew out of Roswell bound for the moon. I have my doubts though, I mean…..Jack Ruby was their pilot? Not buying that for a second.

Here is what I generated:

Compose Your Own Conspiracy Theory (using the conspiracy generator)

In order to understand American politics you need to realize that everything is controlled by a secret cabal made up of space aliens.

The conspirators are agents of the Antichrist and their conspiracy began when Darwin created the hoax of evolution.

The conspirators have been responsible for many events throughout history, including
the homosexual movement Today, members of the conspiracy are everywhere. They can be identified only by their alien DNA.

The conspirators have help from powerful elite wealthy corporate owners, and the conspiracy benefits undeserving illegal immigrants; at the expense of Russian Orthodox Christians.

The conspirators want to drain the precious bodily fluids from all God-Fearing Christians, and round up and restrain resisters in hidden caves. They are using Black Ops agents
to establish a global government. In order to prepare for this, we all must send e-mail to everyone we know.

All of this was revealed years ago by Father Coughlin. Since the media is controlled by
lizard aliens you should get your information only from Lyndon LaRouche.

It is generally accepted in certain circles that the government plants conspiracy theorists with especially nutty variations (for example, people that claim that there were no planes on 9/11, reptilianists), to discredit serious skeptics by association.

Yes, there is—and it’s massive. You see, it all started when [REDACTED].

@Simone_De_Beauvoir The Donald’s recent venture into Birtherism and the other racist nonsense he’s been spouting is a great example of someone pushing conspiracies they don’t even believe in for personal gain. I mean I am under no illusions that Trump is as brilliant as he says he is, but I he can’t possibly be as stupid as he’s been acting.

@erichw1504 GA! That’s a classic.

@Pandora My son is in Afghanistan right now. I know what you mean about yelling at the TV from time to time.

@Symbeline wrote, “The government can’t be stupid and incompetent if they’re able to spin the conspiracies some suspect they create.” Yes. That’s the most clever part of the massive conspiracy. They use their superior intelligence and control to make it “seem” like they are a bunch of bumbling fools that could never do any real harm. :-)

@JilltheTooth OMG. She’s one of the Greys; :-)

@Ron_C And here Fox thought that was an Investigative Journalism machine. Saves so much money versus sending reporters out in the field to get stories.

BTW, I went to a rally here in Boston in support of the workers in Wisconsin, and low and behold, LaRouche’s nut cases had a table set up with very sane looking slogans posted, and they were collecting signatures and contact info from the crowd. It all looked so innocent.

@atomicmonkey That’s some shrewd analysis of the thought process. Here’s a good article on the topic. There has been recent research done on the mental pathology that underlies conspiracy theories and those who routinely nurture them. The take, as I gather it, is that certain people need a particular world view in order for them to feel safe. When anything threatens that world view, it must be spun into a conspiracy that explains why their world view is still right and safe; and it’s just being threatened by some evil, secret cabal.

@ucme Funny. I thought Jimmy Hoffa was the flight commander.

@ragingloli Unlikely. When you’ve got whack jobs that are totally real like Lyndon LaRouche and David Icke constantly doing the discrediting for them. Why bother.

@SavoirFaire You know too, huh? I can tell you it’s completely {REDACTED}.

@ETpro
Ah Ha, you see, LaRouche and Icke ARE government plants, that is the point.

@ETpro Now you’re just being silly, that post was filled by the 2nd shooter from the grassy knoll. I thought that was public knowledge by now.

@ETpro He’s not stupid. But he knows his audience, which is.

The generation of conspiracy theories is a fact and not a conspiracy theory. The existence of rumors isn’t a rumor either.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Word!

@mattbrowne Yes, I had heard a rumor to that effect. :-)

This is probable. The Republican Party co-opted the original Teabaggers by convincing them that the US Government is conspiring to destroy American free enterprise through taxation and Socialist social programs, when in fact we are the least taxed people in the developed world and the only first-world nation without universal healthcare.

As far back as 1903, Czarist Russians forged The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which the Hitlerian boys bought hook, line and sinker as a weapon against world Judaism and an excuse to annihilate the race. So, there are examples in history of people generating conspiracies for political ends. Convincing enough nutcases that the world is actually ruled by Reptilian Humanoids, or other aliens and such can take attention away from the real problems we face and the groups cause them. Icke’s (Pronounced Ickee?) books are actually selling very well.

I can certainly see how conspiracy theories could be useful to nefarious ends and there are definitely enough disenfranchised, alienated, confused, uneducated, and scared people out there who sense they have been lied to by their governments who crave some “special knowledge” to keep them going.

@Espiritus_Corvus Very astute observation. Thanks.

@Espiritus_Corvus Do you mean that the world is not ruled by reptilians and that Bush was not a reptile/human hybrid?

@Ron_C Concerning the record of the Bush family in general, I can certainly understand why someone would come to believe this. Lizards all. And their cohorts are proliferating at an incredible rate. Have you seen a photograph of Florida’s new governor? Combined with his criminal history in the medical field, his current actions, opinions and contempt for the common man, it is very tempting to believe that he would use them as a food source. He is incredibly arrogant and is obviously above the law. The fact that he remains at large may be proof that he is backed by the Intergalactic Reptillian Forces now occupying the state capitals of Wisconsin and New Jersey, the Republican Party hierarchy. There humanoid slaves have taken over the Tea Party. Michelle Bachman avoids mirrors in the halls of the national Capitol building for fear that the press will discover she is incapable of casting a reflection. It is obvious that we are under complete occupation of an alien force. Hide the ketchup. Humans: Run for your lives.

@Espiritus_Corvus considering the fact that almost half of the U.S. population has been persuaded to vote against their own self-interest and that the supreme court has granted full human rights to corporations, even international corporations, you may be right. The U.S. is now under the control of inhuman forces. Whether you call them Reptilians or neocons, the effect is the same. It is good to be old and not have to see the eventual decline into slavery to the elite controllers of our society.

@Espiritus_Corvus That would be truly funny if there weren’t so many kernels of putrid truth in it. Witness @Ron_C‘s response.