Create your own Conspiracy manual

Remember, people who believe one conspiracy theory will believe many, you too simply need a keyboard and internet connection and you can within hours have thousands of gullible fruitloops following you and preaching for you.

1. Pick your adversary
• A sense of anomie (dislocation from society and authority) fuels beliefs in conspiracy theories, so pick a big bad organisation of some sort - government or big business is ideal
• For added spice, identify a shadowy, secretive society with implied links to your adversary: the more shadowy, the better

2. Choose your event
• You'll need a big, contemporary newsworthy event around which to weave your theory
• If it's a sudden, shocking visual occurrence of international import it is more likely to become a "flashbulb memory" for the masses. Your key conspiracy audience, most able to create such vivid "indelible" memories will be between the ages of 20 and 35

3. Develop your story
• Construct your theory from carefully selected information that weaves together into a compelling story
• If something doesn't fit, reinterpret it in line with your theory
• Create uncertainty: question existing evidence or find new evidence that contradicts the "official" account

4. Prepare your defence
• If someone highlights a gap or inconsistency in your evidence, don't be afraid to tweak your story, but keep the core conspiracy in place
• You can allow the finer details of the theory to mutate, but always keep in mind the maxim - "they did it, I just have to find the proof that they did it"
• Broaden the circle of conspirators to include those who question your position... "they're denying the truth - they must be involved too!"

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I believe Abdul's guidance is a government plant

no, but i do have a government plant on my window sill at work, i stole it from another government department when we left their building in whitehall a year or so ago, along with a portable air-con unit - can't remember it's name, i'll check tomorrow

NotBert wrote:I believe Abdul's guidance is a government plant

Spot on....I mean, who the fuck else would type that up!!

Abdul Kowalski wrote:no, but i do have a government plant on my window sill at work, i stole it from another government department when we left their building in whitehall a year or so ago, along with a portable air-con unit - can't remember it's name, i'll check tomorrow

Abdul, how much do you love your air-con to give it a name?