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Originally Posted by allisonthegreat
Just some food for thought. There are a few different conspiracy theories out there. Up to including the one where the twin towers were wired.
Still I can't imagine why? Why so much distruction and loss of life? Most of this is coming up probably because of the anniversary but most of it has been on the net for awhile.
I know in Ireland you have your own troubles or had. I even saw an article (I apologize I don't know where), that Irish Catholic citizens in Great Britain are victims of prejudice. The article may have stated just Irish citizens.
Thank you for responding to my post.
It is always nice to meet someone from Ireland as my Aunt and Uncle used to spend summers in the South during the seventies. regards, allison
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Thank you for being tactful as I do tend to get worked up about conspiracy theories as they are a pet hate of mine. Not that I don't think that there are real conspiracies in the world, just that are mostly mundane (though scary) terrorist plots, political intrigues, shady transactions, and the like thats a fact of human life and people will always have plots or conflicts going on.
Of course there are always exceptions that make the rule also, but by their nature exceptions tend to be, well exceptional.
The difference is in the "big" conspiracies in modern popular culture, which have more to do with film plots and the like than anything remotely real such as alien abductions, crop circles, jews, elvis, I dunno, the second coming, the knights templar, etc etc, you know what I mean. They seem to almost to have become a pseudo religion for some people who have become completely subverted to looking at everything in a mostly irrational and generally credulous matter.
I kinda thought it was just a case of intellectual laziness and pre-millenial tension, but its getting worse as I can see. Also the downside of vague suspicions and conspiracy ideas such as these is that it can create general paranoia and panic in people everywhere, and under such conditions people are liable to do terrible things for percieved threats that are out of all proportion to reality, and then intelligent people with
really threatening ideas such as islamic fundamentalists or other religious extremists, neo nazis, extreme nationalists, unreconstructed stalinsts etc. etc. can use such climates very effectively. Given the current geopolitical climate, that is a serious problem and the real threat.
In terms of the Irish thing, political violence is pretty mundane and normal and yes its been a feature of Irish life for a long long time, though it has been confined to the north for most of the 20th century and perhaps is changing finally for the better in the 21st, perhaps. Also I'm sure quite a few Irish people have encountered prejudice in Britain, but then some British people have encountered preudice here, given the history of the two Islands its hardly surprising, though regrettable, and I do actually think that mutually held stereotypes are changing rapidly here and in Britain and have been for a long time. I don't think that was ever percieved in quite the same conspiracy theory way, though of course there have been lots of shady goings on, assasinations, plots, bombs, secret organizations, couter-terroirsm the whole shebang as we might say, but it was something that has always been nothing if not very real and very gritty and not a plot device for some crazy story.