al-Qaeda confirms bin Laden death

HERE.

But conspiracy theories are inherently irrefutable, and will continue. Now we’ll be back to the theories about how al-Qaeda was a U.S. creation in the first place designed to discredit Muslims and justify an invasion of the Middle East. Simultaneously we hear that Obama is himself a Muslim, born perhaps in Indonesia, who is attempting to subvert the United States from within. I’m not sure how well these two theories fit together.

There’s always a theory available, because the whole point is to be the lonely wise critic whom powerful people are unsuccessfully attempting to dupe. It’s a psychology more than a politics.

Someone ought to write a really good philosophy book about conspiracy theories. There’s a philosophical rot at the heart of them, I believe.