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December 20, 2010 | Share |
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/opinion/21iht-edcohen21.html?_r=1&emc=...
I say “thinking,” but that’s generous. What we are dealing with here is the paltry harvest of captive minds. Such minds resort to conspiracy theory because it is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.
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The truth is more banal. The WikiLeaks cables reveal autocratic but powerless Sunni Arab governments calling on the United States to do everything they are unable to do themselves — from decapitating Iran to coordinating a Sunni attack on an ascendant Hezbollah in Lebanon. Such fecklessness, and the endless conspiracy theories that go with it, suggest an Arab world still gripped by illusion.Milosz wrote powerfully of the “solace of reverie” in worlds of oppression. I found much solace in Lebanon but little evidence that the Middle East is ready to exchange conspiratorial victimhood for self-empowerment — and so move forward.
The antisemite bunch on these blogs are only a remote effect of the worldwide conspiracy theory spread by Muslim organisations and their ultra-left 'useful' idiots.
mattpryor
21 December, 2010 - 10:42
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But Jose the article is by Roger Cohen - with a name like that he must be a Zionist! Don't you see, he's part of the conspiracy!
Seriously though what is most worrying is that in the Arab world they sort of have an excuse - ignorance and oppression. What excuse do people living in the UK, or the US have? I work with someone who thinks that 9/11 was an inside job. No joke. He's memorized all the "arguments" too.
I blame the internet. It's driving people mad.