(December 9, 2013 at 3:00 am)Ryantology Wrote: Conspiracy theories tend to be little more than highly-specialized religions, with the same vaporous foundations in reality.
I do find it sickening that Alex Jones has, according to Forbes, an $800,000 house and $5million net worth. I've often wondered if the best way to amass a fortune is to exploit the gullibilities of some people.
Relgions use fear of death/hell and exploit this to sell the solution to avoid this. Do conspiracy theories do the same? I guess people can and do gather weapons and go and live in isolated communities to protect themselves from the government, but they can't be the majority of truthers*. You can go and see David Icke, pay a large amount for a ticket and more for a book, but will that protect you from the lizard people? What it does do is further convince you that you are correct in your beliefs, much like going to Church does for Christians.
Browsing the Alex Jones shop ( http://www.infowarsshop.com/ ) it does seem you can buy lots of things to protect you, relocation advice books, portable generators etc etc. Plus Super Male Vitality, I assume so you can re-populate the resistance quickly when the antichrist Obama decides to kill you all.
Maybe just having the knowledge makes you feel more in control of you own lives and that makes people feel better. Conspiracy theories are generally vast oversimplifications of the real world, and so easy to understand.
*I so so hate that term
