What is a conspiracy?
A conspiracy theory attempts to explain the ultimate cause of an event (usually a political, social, or historical event) as a secret, and often deceptive, plot by a covert alliance of powerful people or organizations rather than as an overt activity or as natural occurrence. Researchers who advocate the conspiratorial view claim that most major events in history have been dominated by conspirators who manipulate political happenings from behind the scenes.
Chim huh? Only Dr Tan understands, and he says this means that conspiracies are plans by conspirators.
Anyhow today we attempt to explain away conspiracies, with the help of Doctor Tan Koon Yan, who lives in a caravan.
Humans naturally respond to events or situations which have had an emotional impact upon them by trying to make sense of those events, typically in spiritual, moral, political, or scientific terms.
In other words, a conspiracy comes about because we need conspiracies to help us believe what happens. A person who believes in one conspiracy theory is often a believer in other conspiracy theories and conversely for a person who does not believe in one conspiracy theory there is a lower probability that he, or she, will believe in another one.
Conspiratorial accounts can be emotionally satisfying when they place events in a readily-understandable, moral context. The subscriber to the theory is able to assign moral responsibility for an emotionally troubling event or situation to a clearly-conceived group of individuals. Crucially, that group does not include the believer. The believer may then feel excused of any moral or political responsibility for remedying whatever institutional or societal flaw might be the actual source of the dissonance.
All these mean that people tend to be idiots and hence conspiracies will feed on conspiracies and hence give rise to more conspiracies. Hence a conspiracy is a conspiracy and a conspiracy
is a conspiracy. You should not believe in conspiracies and submit your will to Dr Tan Koon Yan instead, hail the great leader of the 21st century! Forward people!
