How to become a conspiracy theorist? I've always said 'put two people together and there will be politics'. Likewise put three people together and presto,the third will be a conspiracy theorist.
An observation- humans seem to need an opponent. Our lot seems to require that something posed will be counter-posed. Knock down the Berlin Wall and....take a stroll down the Arab street. Left/Right, Yin/Yang....the game of life? The mighty Maroons squash the cockroaches, yeah.
FrankGol, maybe your a malignant entity from Middle Earth, but I like your point. Maybe Bush and his neos should set up office in downtown Baghdad or Riyadh and Wheres-he Bin Hidden should get something palatial on the 98th floor of the Empire Strikes Back building. This might cool their ardour.

Conspiracy theories are a coping mechanism for those who do not feel like they are in control of their own lives.

Someone else is to blame for the misfortunes that surround them.

Conspiracy theories by and large tend to simplify human behavior to the point of absurdity.

That is why they are so much fun to read and debunk.

Then again, it is reasonable to believe that everything you are told in the media or by politicians is the absolute truth and that nobody ever has any vested personal interests or agendas?

Many things we are taught as "history" are later shown to be lies or half-truths.

Funny how the words "conspiracy" and "theory" are always used together, despite the fact that many conspiracies are later proven to be true.

Perhaps simply accepting everything at face value is the true coping mechanism at work.

Another good article on this topic

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21102

don't let your paranoia get you. :)

I agree with Benjamin's line.

The biggest conspiracy believers are Bush and Howard. All they have managed to do is give credence to Bin Laden's dreams to the extent of now being a world wide movement. In their twisted little minds that is. It is these "leaders" that are feeding and creating terrorists with their own paranoia.

Elvis is in Iraq, having walked on the moon and swum with Harold Holt through the Bermuda Triangle to see God. All fiction.

to FrankGol,

You ask: "what's the difference between you and the people you condemn for their alleged hatred and violence?

If you don't answer me properly, should I come over and bomb your house and take away your liberty?"

Two points here: first, the difference between me and the people I was referring to in my post (the ones who are against equality and fair treament and freedom) is that I am for liberal values and they are not, and their hatred and violence and bigotry and racism is not "alleged" it is in our faces every day. Look at any newspaper or tv news program from any Muslim dominated nation and you will see the same filth.

Secondly, my whole point about bombing those dictators and bigots in the first place was so that their victims (their own people usually) can live in the same freedom and with the same equalities as us. I wasn't referring to taking away liberty but giving it. Did the US and Britian take away the liberty of the Nazis or the totalitarian Japanese in WWII? Why don't you ask the people of those countries today whether they would have preferred the US and Britian done nothing and see what they themselves say. Ask the South Koreans whether they prefer that the US stayed out of their business (which by the way, China and Russia were fully in at the time) so that they too could enjoy the benefits of greedy, criminal, totalitarian nations just like their brethren in North Korea. Geez,I wonder why Taiwan, South Korea, Japan are all the best countries in Asia today in terms of wealth and rights (even though they are still far behind the West but much much better than other Asian countries).

Looks like, due to the leftist bigotry and stupid nihlism, Vietnam missed out on these benefits, because leftist racists, who don't believe that all people should live with rights, equality and dignity, made the US army pull out of Vietnam and gave it to the criminal so-called communists who simply robbed the place.

IDIOT.