Real
conspiracies do exist. But there is a difference between seeing one
that is really there and seeing them everywhere without any evidence.
The tendency to become convinced of a conspiracy without actual evidence
is due to having, as a small child, not ever having found out, at least
not in a manner
one could process, what Daddy and Mommy were doing in the bedroom with
the door closed.
That
childhood experience can cause one, years later, as an adult, to see
everything in terms of Big People, doing Something Bad in Secret. The
childhood experience gets projected onto other Big People who hold Great
Power, usually the government, but also sometimes the Church, a hidden
cabal of a distrusted minority group such as Jews or Muslims, or agents
of a feared enemy nation.
The
distribution of conspiracy theories is not equal among the population.
It is most common on the right of the political spectrum because that is
where the most sexual repression is found, so that is where there are
more adults who were never able to discover what Daddy and Mommy were
doing, or rather, were never able, later, when they reached puberty and
should have been able to figure it out, could not assimilate the
information and admit that was something Daddy and Mommy would do.
In
recent years, as the feelings of helplessness in the face of authority
figures with overwhelming power over the lives of helpless individuals
has grown, more and more people are reverting to a childhood state of
helplessness and dependency. And along with that revival of early
feelings come the conviction that Big People are Up To Something Bad in
Secret. One resultr of this reverting to childhood feelings of
helplessness against these Big People is to see conspiracies by the
Government everywhere.
But
in almost all cases, it is only the particular conspiracies of the
usual populist conspiracy-theoory movement that become popular enough
for most people to believe them. There are any number of websites about
HAARP, Chemtrails, and UFO cover-ups, but none on real, well-documented
conspiracies like police cars that carry throw-down guns or FBI agents
allowing gangsters like Whitey Bulgar to kill hundreds of people over
decades in exchange for information on his competition.
And
it is usually the same people who get interested in the official
populist conspiracy theory movement who, if they become interested in
orgonomy, fall into the official version of orgonomy, the Communist
Agents Were Out To Get Reich version, or one of it's varients, the Air
Force Was Trying To Cover Up The Cloudbuster version, or the CIA Was
Trying To Hide Reich's Discoveries version, or whatever other version
fits in with their childhood feelings of some Big People doing Something
Bad in Secret.
To
be credible, a claim of a conspiracy must have evidence. and so far,
there is no evidence that Reich was ever the victim of anything other
than normal law enforcement procedures and died a natural death under
the stress of imprisonment.
May
I suggest
that one reason for the suspicion that he was murdered held by so many
of his following was that they could not bring themselves to admit that
their savior, Reich,. could have suffered from a biopathic disease and
died of natural causes. They had to consider him perfect and to admit
that he was not perfect would have been unbearable to them.
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