paulitician
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you're right ,it the conspiracies that one chooses to "believe" in that are a good measure of mental illness.
I disagree. Which Conspiracies you choose to believe in is subjective and based on many variables. Mental illness is just one variable.
The fact is some conspiracy theories trigger aggressive investigations that bring quite a bit of truth to light and leave other interesting questions to answer. And some are indeed the stuff of implausible fantasy.
Some of the more compelling events of the 20th Century that have triggered numerous conspiracy theories.
The spacecraft crash at Roswell
JFK's death
NASA faked the moon landings
9/11
The flooding of New Orleans
The Illuminati and the New World Order
Jesus bloodlines (triggered by the DaVinci Code)
Princess Dianas death
Elvis Presleys death
Global warming
Certainly there are wide differences of opinion about many or most or all of these which cannot be attributed to mental imbalance, delusion, or even wild speculation. And then too, some of the theories are just plain nuts.
I can't disagree with you on that. It is up to the individual to decide which Conspiracies they think are credible. But the term 'Crazy' just gets tossed around way too much. Governments lie. That's just the way it is. No one should ever take their word as Gospel. I know i don't.