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i am not sure of the utility of conspiracy theories in general---they seem geared toward simplifying the world, running along a kind of royalist logic that assumes, somewhere behind the surface of diverse folk acting with various motives for divergent ends, there lay a single explanation for what happens---an explanation that is condensed aroudn a discrete group of folks.
for example, i do not buy into the mythologies that have surfaced about skull and bones. mostly because i have spent almost all of my academic life at ivy league schools---so they hold no mystery for me, so the basis for much of the speculation isnt compelling.
as for the assocations of the bush family with arabs: so what? i found nothing interesting or explanatory about the segments of moore's "farenheit 911" that tried to work this association, nor have i found any other arguments rooted in the same basically racist view of arabs compelling from other political sectors.
i see the appeal of these theories as largely aesthetic--they function as conditions of possibility for very simple explanations for complex phenomena.
on the other hand, maybe i'm wrong about all the above: but given that i am hostile to the reversion to conspiracy, the arguments would have to be very strong. so far, i havent seen any.
besides, if there was a conspiracy behind the present political order, you'd think that they would have chosen someone less---um---inept to front for them. if the conspiracy is that incompetent, then i dont see why we should worry about it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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