One of the basic elements for the understanding of
conspiracy theories is that any conspiracy has several contradictory models.
An excellent sample is the New World Order conspiracy
model that changes with the times and the style of conspiracy theorists.
Communists, Jews, Freemasons, Illuminati and now even extraterrestrial lizards
are the conspirators.
For the John Birch society, communists were behind the
N.W.O. sinister plan to control the whole world, but after the collapse of the
Soviet Union and the conversion of China to the capitalist system, the whole
thing changed.
Anti-Semitic individuals and groups pointed to the Jews, consequently the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
and invention of czarist police to justify the pogroms in Russia, were back “in
print”. Now, some conspiracy theorists say that the presumed reptilian
controllers of our world were behind those protocols.
Also the villains are the Trilateral, the Bilderberg
Group, United Nations and of course Illuminati, Freemasonry and even Satan
himself.
For the manipulators of social paranoia everything goes.
Why? Because fear and hate are always best-sellers.
New World Order conspiracy is now blended with the myth of the UFO cover up and even evil extraterrestrials
that conspire inside the so called Military-Industrial-Extraterrestrial
complex.
The real problem is that these conspiracies are more than
innocent urban legends. In the mind of border-line personalities conspiratorial
ideas can give the motivation for acts of irrational violence.
Those who plant this kind of misinformation particularly
in the internet should consider the danger mentioned above.
