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From: tracer@stb.UUCP (Jeff Boeing)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,talk.politics.misc,talk.religion.newage,alt.individualism,alt.flame
Subject: Re: The Conspiracy Conspiracy (Hansen & Levitt, 1988)
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Date: 6 Apr 88 18:03:26 GMT
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Reply-To: tracer@stb.UUCP (Jeff Boeing)
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But we really ARE being plotted against by the Communist Homosexual Bourgeois
Martians!!!

No, seriously, people use conspiracy theories for the same reason they choose
enemies to hate.  They want somebody or some group to blame their frustrations
and misery on, when in reality nearly all their problems were caused by one
person and one person only:

Themselves.
-- 
Jeff Boeing (which is not my real name)   |   ...!uunet!stb.uucp!tracer
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"All right, you weak bosons!  You're not dealing with some obscure 9th-level
 by-the-book paladin anymore!"   -- Sick Sword