As I was loking through a few of the blogs from my classmates, I randomly stumbled upon this one. It caught my attention because of one word in the title. Conspiracy. I don’t consider myself to be a conspiracy theorist, but I do enjoy reading about different theories, because they interest me. This includes theories about everything from 9/11, to Masonry, and also occassionally JFK and his assasination. Anyways, that’s neither here nor there. One particular sentence stuck out to me in Ms. Rogers’ blog… “The theorists behind conspiracies, such as the Kennedy Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks, are aimed at achieving popular control, manipulating public consensus and influencing public attitudes by providing alternatives to messages given by the media.” The problem I have with this is that the conspiracy theorists would argue that they are not the ones who are manipulating the public consensus, but rather the government is the one doing this. Once again, I’m not saying I agree with all of their opinions, but I must admit that these theorists raise many good points, and also that our government doesn’t tell us everything that we should know.
The media certianly have their agendas, and go about pushing them in several different ways. It is our job as humans, Christians, Americans to dechipher what is truth, and what is not.
On that note I leave you with one of the smartest verbal arguments you will see between my hero, Stephen Colbert, and that other guy from Fox.
