boardswa said...The forums on this site used to be fun and informative. All I see now are endless postings based around conspiracy theories. Society unfortunately has a lot of sad and sick people, the lucky ones who know they are sick get treatment and can again live a healthy and normal life. The others with nothing else in their lives feed on conspiracy theories and regurgitate them onto these forums. What I find astounding is that people respond. Why would any sane person bother to reply to this garbage, all you do is encourage them and give their arguments some kind of validity. All you have to do to cure this conspiracy cancer is simply treat it with the contempt that it deserves and ignore it. Eventually without a host it will simply infect itself and die.
why not give it a try!
Why do I respond?
I think you have answered that yourself when you refer to it as a cancer.
Very rarely does a cancer self extinguish just by ignoring it.
It does happen, but not often.
More commonly, you ignore it for a while but while you are doing that it is gaining strength and momentum until finally it takes over the host organism, which in this case is the society we live in.
It poisons society to react against the system which is set in place to benefit it, and that can't be a good thing.
There is nothing wrong with a healthy scepticism but this conspiracy rubbish breeds more than that. It fosters a deep seated distrust and disrespect for the governing powers and therefore creates an excuse to work against them.
Governments make enough genuine errors worthy of criticism without having to invent fictitious ones.
If you think our society is actually doing not too bad then it is worth defending. Specially when it is so easy to do so
It would be very sad to see it infected by such gross stupidity and negative intent as is displayed in some of these conspiracy theories.
You might think this would be an unlikely outcome but because they now have such an effective way of spreading their poison by way of the internet and U tube, it is clear that even the most stupid conspiracy scenario can gain a lot of traction over a very wide audience.
The original conspiracy rubbish used to be under the heading of "POISON".
I think this was appropriate because that's what it is.
I do agree that it now seems to be infecting too many threads , but then they are clearly marked so if you have no interest in them then they are easy to skip over.
I think the thread heading of "Stupid Theories" was appropriate but then what self respecting conspiracy theorist would want to post their pearls of wisdom under a heading like that.
Maybe forum admin might like to transplant any similar topic to that thread heading.
From another aspect, they do offer a very good insight into the human condition.
And that condition is the ability to firmly believe in something which has no basis in reality, even in the face of undeniable proof that the belief is wrong.
Once the belief has been firmly established it is unshakeable, even after every cornerstone of their argument is demolished.
There are a number of things in society which take advantage of that flaw in our make up.
If you recognise this you will see it coming and not be taken advantage of by it.
God it was such a nice weekend too. 
