Evil men lie. Evil men pretend to be good men. Therefore, it always appears that everybody is good. The good men really are good. And the ones who are not, pretend that they are.
When the fox was found in the henhouse, he said “There’s nobody here but us chickens.”.
Christians sometimes say that Satan’s greatest success was in persuading men that he does not exist. This may or may not be true about Satan, but it is certainly true of evil men. Evil men will say, “There is no conspiracy. We are all good honorable men.”. They denounce as paranoia any suggestion to the contrary, regardless of how much evidence there is.
In our time, evil men are in a very strong position. They say “Those people who talk about conspiracy are potential terrorists.”. Thus they are moving toward setting up Thought Police.
It is commonplace that articles talking about “conspiracy theory” give psychological explanations of ideas of conspiracy, rather than evidence or counter-arguments. Taking this to a farther degree, it becomes the charge that people with such ideas are insane. If they can make that stick, maybe they can get the victim into a psychiatric hospital, where they can drug him into oblivion or give him a lobotomy. This was routine in Soviet Russia, and has been done to some degree in America.
Thus there are two approaches to dealing with people who think thoughts about conspiracy. One is to treat them as “enemy combatants” and as “potential terrorists”. Then, since our Constitutional Rights have recently been destroyed, they can be “detained” indefinitely without trial. They disappear into some American gulag.
The other approach is to treat them as “mentally ill”. They can be given sympathy and spoken of in sad tones. Then they can be given “treatment” which destroys them as human beings, if it does not actually kill them.
Then we’re all good guys, because anyone who admits to thinking otherwise has been eliminated.
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