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A comment on The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy.

Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy by patrickg_zill on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:27PM (#15003523)
The real reason for the prevalence of conspiracy theories: some of them turn out to be true!

See the recent LIBOR conspiracy.

Hundreds if not thousands of people knew about it, yet it never leaked until some chance emails turned up during discovery of some other financial malfeasance.

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Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy by sverige on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:43PM (#15003606)
The phrase "conspiracy theory" was coined by the CIA. [1,2] It is one of the greatest counters to the exposure of secrets ever invented. This article is a good example of why it is so effective. Who's going to question the authority and veracity of the BBC?

[1] https://projectunspeakable.com/conspiracy-theory-invention-o...

[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/1967-he-cia-created...

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Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy by mcguire on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:03PM (#15004915)
[3] Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
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Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy by dispo001 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @01:53PM (#15003995)
To point out the obvious: people who most badly need to understand this are not able to understand what it means.

We need some approach like Not Sure talking with plants.

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