Pratchett og konspirasjonsteorier

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Jeg leser alle Vimes-bøkene til Terry Pratchett om igjen, jobber meg bakover fra Thud!, som er den nyeste. Akkurat nå leser jeg Jingo, som er en av de beste, og jeg må bare dele med dere en halv side observasjoner omkring konspirasjonsteorier og hvorfor de er så populære, enkle og tilfredsstillende løsninger. (Denne passasjen kommer etter at Vimes driver og tenker på at han er sikker på at det er noen av adelsfolkene han hater mest som står bak en serie begivenheter som ser ut til å kunne føre til krig.)

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And then he realized why he was thinking like this.

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somehwere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed their dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.