Societies especially in times of stress need an 'other' to blame for times when things don't go just the way we want or expect them to. It's an
attachment to the childish habit of not accepting fault when it's ours or externalising fault to preserve ego even when there's no fault per se.
Witness the scapegoat in its many incarnations whether as actual goat or uppity feminists, uppity blacks, uppity 'whatever-group-turns-your-crank'.
It's always easier to blame someone else when the other isn't there in any great number to defend themselves. Then all of society's reputed
"ills" can be laid at their feet for blame. Witness the Jews in Nazi Germany.
Immaturity is a terrible thing but oh-so-much-easier than the alternative
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reply posted on 24-3-2008 @ 08:33 PM by andre18
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Most Americans still believe that the Federal Reserve is the government, it is not, the fed is a privately owned banking system whose majority share holders are the Rothschild’s, the Warburg’s, J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller and the Lehman brothers. This private banking cartel is the fed and is never audited and never pays taxes.
Most Americans still believe that the Federal Reserve is the government, it is not, the fed is a privately owned banking system whose majority share holders are the Rothschild’s, the Warburg’s, J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller and the Lehman brothers. This private banking cartel is the fed and is never audited and never pays taxes.
reply posted on 24-3-2008 @ 09:16 PM by JustMe74
This is the best explanation I've come across for this mindset:
www.publiceye.org...
That's not to say that there aren't real conspiracies out there, but, IMHO, they're far more mundane than much of what gets tossed around here. Makes for entertaining reading, but I wouldn't base my life around any of this stuff.
www.publiceye.org...
That's not to say that there aren't real conspiracies out there, but, IMHO, they're far more mundane than much of what gets tossed around here. Makes for entertaining reading, but I wouldn't base my life around any of this stuff.
reply posted on 30-3-2008 @ 06:43 PM by RWPBR
reply to post by wow23
Because it is easier to blame others for you problems than it is to take responsibility for your own actions.
Then you have a certain group of people who will believe anything that is even moderately scandalous because it relieves the boredom of an otherwise mundane life.
And finally you have those who just are not an intellectually gifted as others and believe anything.
Throw in the class warriors and the religious zealots and your question has been answered.
Peace
Because it is easier to blame others for you problems than it is to take responsibility for your own actions.
Then you have a certain group of people who will believe anything that is even moderately scandalous because it relieves the boredom of an otherwise mundane life.
And finally you have those who just are not an intellectually gifted as others and believe anything.
Throw in the class warriors and the religious zealots and your question has been answered.
Peace
reply posted on 16-8-2008 @ 03:00 AM by crisrj214
reply to post by JustMe74
The only reason we are able to see germs is because we created microscopes that allowed us to prove their existence. Air(or rather the atoms that make it up) in ancient Greece was simply empty space. There were not small balls floating around that's impossible. Hundreds of years later we proved the existence of atoms. I wish I could remember who said it but they said "What is today's philosophy is tomorrow's common sense." For years people reported sightings of mountain gorillas in Africa. It wasn't until the 1950's when scientists discovered them and realized that those people were not crazy. What if tomorrow scientists prove the existence of aliens? All the accounts of the eye witnesses will instantly change from yesterday's nonsense to today's common sense. If the Wright brothers hadn't of believed and gave up when people criticized and ridiculed them, where would we be today with our transportation? A common one is penecilin. If the creator of penecilin stopped believing when others deemed him stupid or insane, how many lives would have been lost to this day? Where there seems to be nothing to the majority a select few prove to them what they previously could not see. Almost every great advancement of society was ridiculed in its infantile stages, but later proved to be invaluable to us. If those few people stop thinking where the rest will not tread, what will become of us? How will we conquer AIDS, cancer, and numerous other deadly and currently incurable diseases? The orthodox ways cannot always solve our problems. We have to go beyond what we know and search for what we do not know. What if someone were to find a plant in the middle of the Amazon that could cure a cancer patient at any stage they were at, but it was very rare and no one else had ever seen it? Should we tell them it's not real and that they are lying and not even try to find these plants that could save thousands of lives?
Forgive me, but I am very adamant when comes to this subject.
[edit on 16-8-2008 by crisrj214]
The only reason we are able to see germs is because we created microscopes that allowed us to prove their existence. Air(or rather the atoms that make it up) in ancient Greece was simply empty space. There were not small balls floating around that's impossible. Hundreds of years later we proved the existence of atoms. I wish I could remember who said it but they said "What is today's philosophy is tomorrow's common sense." For years people reported sightings of mountain gorillas in Africa. It wasn't until the 1950's when scientists discovered them and realized that those people were not crazy. What if tomorrow scientists prove the existence of aliens? All the accounts of the eye witnesses will instantly change from yesterday's nonsense to today's common sense. If the Wright brothers hadn't of believed and gave up when people criticized and ridiculed them, where would we be today with our transportation? A common one is penecilin. If the creator of penecilin stopped believing when others deemed him stupid or insane, how many lives would have been lost to this day? Where there seems to be nothing to the majority a select few prove to them what they previously could not see. Almost every great advancement of society was ridiculed in its infantile stages, but later proved to be invaluable to us. If those few people stop thinking where the rest will not tread, what will become of us? How will we conquer AIDS, cancer, and numerous other deadly and currently incurable diseases? The orthodox ways cannot always solve our problems. We have to go beyond what we know and search for what we do not know. What if someone were to find a plant in the middle of the Amazon that could cure a cancer patient at any stage they were at, but it was very rare and no one else had ever seen it? Should we tell them it's not real and that they are lying and not even try to find these plants that could save thousands of lives?
Forgive me, but I am very adamant when comes to this subject.
[edit on 16-8-2008 by crisrj214]
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