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CONSPIRACY THEORIES are DESTROYING DEMOCRACY: BBC

 
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Are conspiracy theories destroying democracy?

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The more information we have about what governments and corporations are up to the less we seem to trust them. Will conspiracy theories eventually destroy democracy?

What if I told you I had conclusive proof that the moon landings were faked, but I had been told to keep it under wraps by my BBC bosses acting under orders from the CIA, NSA and MI6. Most of you would think I had finally lost my mind.

But, for some, that scenario - a journalist working for a mainstream media organisation being manipulated by shadowy forces to keep vital information from the public - would seem entirely plausible, or even likely.

We live in a golden age for conspiracy theories. There is a growing assumption that everything we are told by the authorities is wrong, or not quite as it seems. That the truth is being manipulated or obscured by powerful vested interests.

And, in some cases, it is.
'Inside job'

"The reason we have conspiracy theories is that sometimes governments and organisations do conspire," says Observer columnist and academic John Naughton.

It would be wrong to write off all conspiracy theorists as "swivel-eyed loons," with "poor personal hygiene and halitosis," he told a Cambridge University Festival of Ideas debate.

They are not all "crazy". The difficult part, for those of us trying to make sense of a complex world, is working out which parts of the conspiracy theory to keep and which to throw away.


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Conspiracy theories through the ages


'Secret societies': Paranoia was rife in the 19th Century in the wake of the French revolution. British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (pictured) warned of "secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans"

Freemasons: A secret society tracing its roots back to the 14th century, freemasonry has been accused of everything from controlling the judiciary to faking the moon landings

Illuminati: Initially referred to the Bavarian Illumaniti, a secret society founded in 1776 to oppose religious influence over public life. Outlawed in 1785 but name now linked to alleged conspiracies to create New World Order

Dreyfus affair: A young artillery officer of Jewish extraction, Alfred Dreyfus, was wrongly convicted in 1894 of treason and sent to Devil's Island in a case that divided France. Nationalists believed there was a Jewish conspiracy against Catholicism

Protocols of the elders of Zion: An anti-semitic hoax supposedly describing Jewish plans for world domination. Publicised by the Nazis despite already being exposed as fraudulent

McCarthyism: Named after Senator Joseph McCarthy who led a witch-hunt against suspected communists in American public life in the first half of the 1950s


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The Media is working in union with Governments to infringe upon speech.
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." p. 37

"In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons [...] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world." p. 37–38

"Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government." p. 48

"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it." p. 71

-Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
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"New Rule: Conspiracy theorists who are claiming that we didn't really kill Bin Laden must be reminded that they didn't think he did the crime in the first place. Come on, nutjobs, keep your bullshit straight: The towers were brought down in a controlled demolition by George W. Bush to distract attention from Hawaii, where CIA operatives were planting phony birth records so that a Kenyan named Barack Obama could someday rise to power and pretend to take out the guy we pretended took out the Towers. And I know that's true because I just got it in an e-mail from Trump."

-- Bill Maher

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theyre destroying the elites con jobs and reawakening democracy..fuck off bbc liars
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"New Rule: Conspiracy theorists who are claiming that we didn't really kill Bin Laden must be reminded that they didn't think he did the crime in the first place. Come on, nutjobs, keep your bullshit straight: The towers were brought down in a controlled demolition by George W. Bush to distract attention from Hawaii, where CIA operatives were planting phony birth records so that a Kenyan named Barack Obama could someday rise to power and pretend to take out the guy we pretended took out the Towers. And I know that's true because I just got it in an e-mail from Trump."

-- Bill Maher

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They are in fear.
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truth hurts
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bbc is destroying democracy


that makes more sense^^
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The same bbc that reported the collapse of wtc 7 twenty minutes before it collapsed. Yeah, credibility zero.



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Like the complete idiots they are, they got it bass ackwards.

Government secrecy and corruption are destroying democracy.

Conspiracy theories are simply the inevitable response.
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"New Rule: Conspiracy theorists who are claiming that we didn't really kill Bin Laden must be reminded that they didn't think he did the crime in the first place. Come on, nutjobs, keep your bullshit straight: The towers were brought down in a controlled demolition by George W. Bush to distract attention from Hawaii, where CIA operatives were planting phony birth records so that a Kenyan named Barack Obama could someday rise to power and pretend to take out the guy we pretended took out the Towers. And I know that's true because I just got it in an e-mail from Trump."

-- Bill Maher

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Lol fuck he sold out hardcore.



Back in the day he didn't seem to like Hillary Clinton much.....


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Democracy would mean that the people vote instead of a senate, congress, house of commons, etc. etc.

Conspiracy theories are destroying the oligarchy that masquerades as a republic.

Gosh, can't even get the current system of government right can they... it must be a conspiracy?
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1776 was a conspiracy theory.

and to the BBC, Americans are still terrorists, not rebels.
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If they wouldnt lie and decieve so often then theories attempting to find the truth wouldnt be necessary. There is just no transparency anymore.
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theyre destroying the elites con jobs and reawakening democracy..fuck off bbc liars
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No, evil fucking politicians aided by the media is destroying it.
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BBC are big black cocks.
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Ironic that's a conspiracy theory.
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Ironic that's a conspiracy theory.
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They can't seem to get their shit straight nowadays.
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Translation: Libertarians are destroying totalitarianism.
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Translation: Libertarians are destroying totalitarianism.
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The fall of the empire. I'll see you on the streets when we have to rebuild. I'll be happy when it falls because those bastards are gone first.
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the bbc and its itelligence agency by trying to control all aspects of the english way destroyed the empire
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PLease, please destroy Democracy. I live in a Republic and care not to live under the whims of the masses who are easily used as draft animals (and usually less stubborn than mules).

If people didn't conspire together I doubt many conspiracy theories would exist. There would be little need since we would have achieved general equality in all things with no one group holding power over the other through the use of lies and dirty lies.

Leave it to the BBC to ask the question: Does something that isn't real endanger something that doesn't exist?

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