Conspiracy Theory
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Various
conspiracy theorists have claimed that the attacks of September 11, 2001
were perpetrated by a faction within the U.S. government. I've seen
most of the arguments that the opponents of those conspiracy theorists
use against that theory. Most of those arguments are nonsense.
The most nearly credible among them is that the conspiracy theorists must
be wrong because they're conspiracy theorists. The other arguments
must be incredibly lame to be worse than that. Anyway, the idea is
that if somebody's a conspiracy theorist, then he's a nut case by definition
and that's a sufficient reason to discredit him and to disbelieve his theory.
The
critics of the conspiracy theorists all seem to believe that the attacks
of September 11, 2001 were perpetrated by Muslims. If pressed, they'll
admit that the Muslims most certainly planned the attacks in secret.
That is, it was a Muslim conspiracy. So, the critics of the conspiracy
theorists are, themselves, conspiracy theorists. The only difference
is that they advocate a Muslim conspiracy instead of a conspiracy within
the U.S. government. Here's the important point. If being a
conspiracy theorist is a sufficient criticism to debunk the idea that the
attacks were perpetrated by a faction within the U.S. government then it's
also a sufficient criticism to debunk the idea that the attacks were perpetrated
by Muslims. Thus, the critics are hoist with their own petard.
Of course it was a conspiracy. No matter who did it, they planned
it in secret. So, let's accept the idea that there's nothing wrong
with being a conspiracy theorist. Everybody knows that the attacks
were the result of a conspiracy.
How
many conspirators would be required in order for such a conspiracy to work?
Consider that, in the United States, there are one hundred senators, 435
congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices. Those
545 people allegedly run the entire country. They do it without anybody
else having any reliable knowledge of their actual agendas. If you
can believe that those few people run the entire country, then it ought
to be easy for you to believe that a much smaller group could load some
airplanes with explosives, hijack a few other airplanes, launch a cruise
missile, rig some buildings with explosives, and dispose of anything and
anybody that might compromise the conspiracy.
I
suggest that you read my essay Unnamed
Agency. It's available on Pharos.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Dilbert's Salary Theorem
Original Source Unknown. Forwarded by David, of
Idaho Falls, Idaho.
According
to Dilbert's Salary Theorem, engineers and scientists can never earn as
much as business executives, sales people, accountants, and liberal arts
majors. This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation
based on the following three axioms.
Axiom
1: Knowledge = Power
Axiom
2: Power = Work / Time
Axiom
3: Time = Money
Since
Knowledge
= Power,
therefore
Knowledge
= Work / Time.
Since
Time
= Money,
therefore
Knowledge
= Work / Money.
Solving for Money, we get,
Money
= Work / Knowledge.
Thus,
as knowledge decreases, money increases, regardless of work. Similarly,
as knowledge increases, money decreases, regardless of work.
QED.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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