tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post6634728298811009691..comments2024-02-23T13:15:42.158+13:00Comments on Dissecting Leftism: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-6613695941581733562017-12-18T19:10:05.217+13:002017-12-18T19:10:05.217+13:00Re; The Saker
Conspiracy theories can be fun, as ...Re; The Saker<br /><br />Conspiracy theories can be fun, as the X-FILES franchise proved. Sort of like Lovecraft's cold and indifferent universe. But it is always a mistake to take either one seriously. Believing in conspiracies quickly leads to the kind of mind numbing paranoia best embodied in Robert Anton Wilson's ILLUMINATUS trilogy, which is hysterically funny from the outside.<br /><br />People who believe that Bush had the Twin Towers demolished are as objectively silly as the die hard old Conservatives who used to (and still do, for all I know) insist that FDR planned Pearl Harbor. There's always a much simpler explanation.<br /><br />Pearl Harbor happened because the Roosevelt administration and the US Military were racists; they knew the Japanese were going to attack, they just thought the Japanese military could't reach much beyond, say, the Philippines. There was plenty of evidence to the contrary, but it went against the institutional assumption that Asians weren't as good as we were.<br /><br />9/11 happened because the political establishment didn't want to do anything about Islamic extremism. And, seeing the mess that trying to do something about it has caused, it's kinda hard to blame them. But there had been plenty of evidence that an attack was going to happen, just nobody in the Clinton administration wanted to hear it. And Bush hardly had time to sweep out the corners of the intelligence services and change the institutional biases. The Left desperately needs Bush to be at fault, because if he isn't they would have to admit that Bubba Clinton was nowhere near as good a President as their Narrative insists, and THAT would mean that his charming wife probably has no business running for office either.<br /><br />C. S. P. Schofieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307088118631856756noreply@blogger.com