I pose the question, but I will say why I think it is too.

Why do I think? Because sometimes things are just too perfect, or too normal. We like to think there is a great evil power over us sometimes, plotting things behind our backs and controlling things, watching our moves. The popularity of the idea comes from books like 1984 and some crime/drama thrillers that are very good movies. If in reality, you learned that "oh, I guess everything really is just normal" then its boring. You like to think that you're bucking the system, rebelling, or fighting (secretly) against a common tyranny with your fellow conspiracy theorists.

Sometimes, people just dont like a particular person or government, so they will beleive anything they hear that works against that person/group/government's credebility. Like, I hate Bush, so when someone suggests there was a 9/11 conspiracy, they jump on the bandwagon against all reason.

And look at some of the conspiracies, they are ridiculous, but if you keep digging, you can always find something that "proves" its right. You can make a conspiracy for anything and find backing for it easily if you just twist the facts a certain way--manipulation of data, misinformation, and disinformation (the media does this all the time).


Why do you think people love to beleive in conspiracies?

Because it makes them feel special or intelligent, or more perceptive than other people. They are one of the enlightened few who see the truth, while everyone else is a fool.

Some naturally anylise everything, for others they are happy to accept what they are told, either way people are entitled to their own view and freedom of speech. Sometimes it can be a good thing sometimes not so good, but if we all believed what our governents told us all of the time then that would leave us wide open.

All a conspiracy is is another possible explanation for something.

The cold war was a conspiracy when it first started.

The JFK assassination was a conspiracy and that made it to court.

Many things that start out as conspiracy's end up being proven true in the future.

Also many people realize that the news only tells there side of the story or sometimes outright lies.

Also people hired to investigate said conspiracy may be biased or even "bought".

The denial of a mainstream explanation and acceptance of a conspiracy in it's place is merely someone expressing distrust of a common explanation.

A distrust earned because of the way the media,or political leaders, or investigators have handled other issues in the past.

I think People Create conspriacies because either

A) They are extremely bored

B) They're messed up and ACTUALLY think that they're right

C)They know something everybody else dosn't and are actually right

OR
D) They want to be the "one that knew it all along" so they create all of these in the hoped that one of them may be correct

All in all I would say about 0.5% of all conspiracy theories ever created have been proven true, but for the most part, they are pointless.

What we believe exists in the very least in another parallel realities so everyone is right technically.

In this reality things are co-created by consciousness so the official explanation of the 9/11 tragedy was or is true.

But if enough people believe that bush did it then that will, from that point on, be what actually happened.

They want to feel important. If something important is going on, AND they are one of an elite few who know about it, that makes them feel important.

Like I said I think it's more an issue of distrust earned by the actions of those that give us the truth, more then feeling important.

There are those who believe in conspiracies who wish they didn't know that information and feel no importance in knowing or believing in these things.

Yah it's a sliding scale.

Really were all right in our answers here because each individual has there own reason for believing.

Good point