Trach Clan

November 22, 2018

Okay, here’s my issue:

Before, the author was convinced the assassination was a conspiracy and others were in denial not to grasp that it was.

Now, he’s convinced the assassination was NOT a conspiracy and people are in denial not to grasp that it was not.

The melody is the same, some lyrics changed The author’s still hammering away to straighten out other people’s heads. He herded his class to see JFK; he wrote this Road to Damascus novella for us.

“Conspiracy thinking” is a tautology in my experience. It’s all just “thinking”, and everyone I know does it to an extent or another. People who are particularly sensitive to patternicity–“conspiracy whackos”–realize some amazing and verifiably true connections sometimes, in my experience.

In complex world events, even the people who are PHYSICALLY PRESENT have a difficult time sorting out what happened. My grandmother was a nurse in Dallas when Ruby shot Oswald, was in the room when he was brought in. She doesn’t know what the hell went down. What kind of chance do ANY of the rest of us have post facto?

Self-appointed “skeptics” telling me what’s wrong with my thinking rub me wrong. It smacks mightily of the “straw in your eye/beam in mine” problem.

Like the song says, “I’ll do me, you do you.”