{"id":620,"date":"2007-11-27T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=620"},"modified":"2007-11-27T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T23:09:25","slug":"conspirators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Conspirators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Gutfield says it best on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygut.com\/index.php?i=3462\">conspiracy theorists<\/a> (see my JFK-conspiracy bashing below):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The flaw in that, however, is even if we wanted to pull off a conspiracy &#8211; we are incapable, because an inside job requires total silence, and America can&#8217;t shut up. But as long as you have Brian DiPalma, Oliver Stone and Charlie Sheen assuming the worst about humanity, you will have to deal with nutjobs who think they&#8217;re smart, but aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theories require an ability to connect the dots, not the facts &#8211; all propped up by a desire to feel smarter than everyone else &#8211; because you have it all figured out. That&#8217;s probably the biggest conspiracy of all &#8211; that these theories only exist to make people think those who spout them have brains &#8211; when in fact they wouldn&#8217;t know reality if it sent them an instant message on their mom&#8217;s computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Preach it, brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Gutfield says it best on conspiracy theorists (see my JFK-conspiracy bashing below): The flaw in that, however, is even if we wanted to pull off a conspiracy &#8211; we are incapable, because an inside job requires total silence, and America can&#8217;t shut up. But as long as you have Brian DiPalma, Oliver Stone and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conspirators<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}