Talkers believe easy Internet access to infinite information, accurate and asinine, is at least partially to blame for the proliferation of people convinced of a cover-up. And on that premise, Talkers speculate on how mis- and meagerly informed morons with modern myth-mongering methods might have mangled many of mankind’s memories. For example:
BabaHannibalonie: “... Hanging gardens! Come On! That’s a laugh. It’s impossible. It would be like taking elephants over the Alps...!”
2Cool4School: “... If Russian winters were that bad, nobody would try to fight in them. That Zhivago guy got through okay, so Napoleon’s boys and those Nazis must’ve really just got food poisoning from all that rich Russian food or caught something really nasty from those smokin’ hot peasant ladies ...”
Talkers understand the human tendency to seek simple solutions to the unthinkable, to match a face to fears and attach blame to bad guys. It’s easier to sleep at night imagining a rational explanation than pondering perils the brain can’t process.
And in the computer age, the tidbits and morsels needed to feed an appetite for conspiracy — the finagled facts and sinister seeds of skepticism — are easy to find. But in reality, they have always existed.
In November 1963, a segment of society couldn’t believe one man with one rifle could cancel Camelot. The feeling of conspiracy was there in the shadows, origin unknown but nevertheless persistent. What they saw couldn’t be all. The year before, two of the nation’s most popular movies were The Manchurian Candidate and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The seeds were well sown.
