it seen like now a day more and more people are turning to conspiracy theory, as evident by many post in the forum on stuff like 9/11, moon landing, federal reserve, the NWA, the illuminati and etc

conspiracism have become a interesting topic in sociology and psychology on why does so many people will believe sometime without hard evidence.

Michael Barkun have group conspiracy into three group

1. Event conspiracy theories. The conspiracy is held to be responsible for a limited, discrete event or set of events. The conspiratorial forces are alleged to have focused their energies on a limited, well-defined objective. The best-known example in the recent past is the Kennedy assassination conspiracy literature.

2. Systemic conspiracy theories. The conspiracy is believed to have broad goals, usually conceived as securing control of a country, a region, or even the entire world. While the goals are sweeping, the conspiratorial machinery is generally simple: a single, evil organization implements a plan to infiltrate and subvert existing institutions. This is a common scenario in conspiracy theories that focus on the alleged machinations of Jews, Freemasons, and the Illuminati, as well as theories centered on international communism or international capitalists.

3. Superconspiracy theories. Conspiratorial constructs in which multiple conspiracies are believed to be linked together hierarchically. Event and systemic are joined in complex ways, so that conspiracies come to be nested together. At the summit of the conspiratorial hierarchy is a distant but all-powerful evil force manipulating lesser conspiratorial actors.

because there is so many different conspiracy theory and different version of the same theory and also the mix and match of different theory. a large number of people will have believe in certain conspiracy theory.

site like abovetopsecret is a virtual supermarket for conspiracy theory, all sort of conspiracy imaginable are available for discussion.

while many of the conspiracy theory are harmless to people that believe them, other like the AIDS conspiracy, or the vaccine conspiracy will actually cost danger to the person and its community.

there are plenty of people that have started thread about conspiracy theory, but no thread have been open to discuss the phenomena of the conspiracy theory itself and why people believe in it depict no having solid proof.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories

http://www.2spare.com/item_43133.aspx

http://endrtimes.blogspot.com/2010/01/stud...y-theories.html

http://www.trutv.com/shows/conspiracy_theory/index.html

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/...70116093354.htm

this have going on since ancient time, human like to hear a good story, some myth and falklore started with a true story but then as the story been pass down through generation more and more magical detail was added to make it more interesting.

i agree that internet have made conspiracy more wide spread even though the official explanation is also available on the net. i think internet also encourage the creation of more and more variation of one conspiracy theory, before the internet, only the more popular version of the theory will get mention but now everyone can post their own theory on the net and its available to the entire world.

conpiracy theory often offer a version of the story is much more exciting, with sinister evil mastermind like the nwo, illuminati and etc, and there is always a sensational story of plot of government and powerfull organization work to kill large amount of people but then have you think why they can gather these information and why are they not dead? those promoting conspiracy theory on the internet, their death can be easily arranged without causing any suspicion from the public unlike the killing the conspiracy accused them of comminting, like 9/11, killer vaccine and etc.