Why Do People Still Believe In Secret Society Conspiracies?
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 19:10
in Psychology & Sociology
People still believe in secret societies because there are secret societies - some groups just don't want attention, even if they do anonymous charity work - but secret cabals that control a nation or the world are irrational, yet belief in them persists.Go ahead, ask some left wing kook about George Bush and they will trail off into gibberish about the Skull&Crossbones and list all all these other people that were in it, as if being in a dinner group made them successful as opposed to being smart enough to get into an Ivy League school. Really, if I am believing some secret Yale cabal is controlling America, I am going with The Whiffenpoofs. Nothing else explains the popularity of "Glee".read more