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5 Things That THEY Don't Want You to Know About Conspiracy T

Post by Riddick » 11-04-2013 03:02 PM

It might seem like we're living at a uniquely rich moment for conspiracy theories. Over the last few years, we've seen it claimed that Osama bin Laden didn't really die, that Barack Obama is covering up the true circumstances of his birth, that Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have encoded Illuminati symbolism in their baby's name, that the National Security Agency has been secretly intercepting Americans' phone calls and e-mails—oh, wait. That last one's true.

It's easy to write off conspiracy theories as the delusions of the political fringe, a minor nuisance fueled by the rise of the Internet. Easy—and inaccurate. Conspiracy stories have been a major part of American life since the colonial days. They are not just found in the political extremes, and they are not invariably wrong. And even when they are wrong, as is so often true, they still have lessons to teach us. To understand why conspiracies matter, it helps to clear away some myths that have attached themselves to the subject.

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