Conspiracy Theories

Finally sick of these. However this does not mean that I stop being 110% skeptical of everything I hear it means that I remain clear about what a fact is: something that can be verified. If we can't personally verify something then we must accept someone elses witness of that verification which means we must trust them. Obviously few people speak without vested interests so we need examine what they stand to gain from us believing them. We also need to examine why they are interested in us knowing; are they really trying to help us? Only once we are clear that they don't want us to believe them for their own personal gain, and because they believe it themselves and because they wish to help us, only then do we add it to the list of possible things.

Problem with conspiracy theories CT is that they only achieve doubt about the motives of authority. Every single CT is based upon some idea of a cover up to protect the selfish motives of the powerful. Of course this happens all the time no mystery. But what about the selfish motives of CT holders? By rejecting the authority and forming a collective of believers they form a power base of their own. They are committing the same fraud they accuse the powerful of committing. CT holders must be aware that there are tigers in every refuge: they can't run to the safety of any dogma.

So no I doubt the authority of conspiracies exactly as I doubt the authority of any official orthodoxy. All dogmas can only become universal by progressively ignoring more and more facts until they apply to everything by applying to nothing.

Which simply clears the field for a much more even, unbiased, unparanoid and subtler approach to truth.

So my own motives? Can I trust myself ... That is a work in progress...