I have enough trouble figuring out exactly what he's saying and means, let alone reading any conspiracy into it!



Meanwhile, having run into my first CT back in the 1950s (Pearl Harbor), and many since then, I have seen a number of underlying themes (not memes) that unite this group.

1. CT believers typically tend to be somewhat disenfranchised from mainstream society and thought. Their belief in CTs is a way of coping with this by trying to turn the tables.

2. CT believers typically tend to be very insecure and, as usually happens, subject to spells of megalomania (Enterprise Mission, anyone?). Once again, claiming to know something that very few (if any) other people know about some important historic event is a real ego boost (at least within the realm of the CT believer's mind).

3. CT believers are typically very lazy and undisciplined, but fervently hold to their beliefs and want other people to buy into them too (Mr. Leaf Blower Descent Engine, anyone?). This is known as "short circuiting the system" and results in many CT believers and proponents providing incredible resumes complete with extraordinary academic achievements for which there is no objective evidence.

4. CT believers usually see themselves as the last bastion of that great American tradition, "the little man". Either they are the little man, or are sticking up for him. Americans have a weakness for underdogs, often unfortunately at the expense of requiring any credibility re the underdog's claims.

5. Astronomy and space exploration are prime subjects for CT believers since so very few people get any kind of education in these subjects. Thus the majority of the population is ripe for the picking by CTers who distort these subjects to fit their unfounded beliefs.

There are more, but those seem to be the main ones that I'm thinking of now based on my experience.

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