{"id":5203,"date":"2014-12-09T19:13:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2019-08-03T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T10:39:17","slug":"rethinking-conspiracy-foreign-policy-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5203","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rethinking Conspiracy&#8217; Foreign Policy Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span class=\"dropcap\" style=\"color: #222222;\">T<\/span>he terms \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy theorist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy nut\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional rather than logical appeals. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important for the sake of true argument that we define the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and use it appropriately, not as an ad hominem attack on someone whose point of view we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t share.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">According to my\u00c2\u00a0<em>Webster\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Unabridged Dictionary,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d derives from the Latin \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspirare,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which means literally \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to breathe together\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the sense of agreeing to commit a crime. The primary definition is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153planning and acting together secretly, especially for a harmful or unlawful purpose, such as murder or treason.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">It was in this sense that Mark Twain astutely observed, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Complete article here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicyjournal.com\/2014\/10\/27\/rethinking-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.foreignpolicyjournal.com\/2014\/10\/27\/rethinking-conspiracy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicyjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WTC_smoking_on_9-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"r\">Kevin Barrett and Jim Fetzer discuss &#8220;Rethinking Conspiracy&#8221; on False Flag Weekly News:<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"r\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noliesradio.org\/archives\/95653\">http:\/\/noliesradio.org\/archives\/95653 <\/a>(17:10 into broadcast)<\/h3>\n<p>Fran Shure, Psychologist, mentions RC in footnote #13:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www1.ae911truth.org\/en\/news-section\/41-articles\/930-why-do-good-people-become-silentor-worseabout-911-pt13.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terms \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy theorist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy nut\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional rather than logical appeals. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important for the sake of true argument that we define the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and use it appropriately, not as an ad hominem attack on someone whose point of view we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t share. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,1,10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}