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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (131965)	5/7/2004 2:07:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

strokes the egos of smug individuals who would like to think they know something the great unwashed masses don't, which is the great attraction of conspiracy theories from whichever side of the political spectrum they come from. The behavior of certain people on this discussion thread is ample demonstration of that. That could be an explanation for the conspiracy theories. I did not interact much with conspiracy theorists until I started taking graduate level history classes, which, in the US, are generally taught as seminars, not lectures. The students are being groomed to be professional historians, so are allowed to speak at length, and give their theories. To a man (to a woman) the foreign students believe in conspiracies. That surprised me the first time I experienced it, circa 1980, when most of the students were Latinos, and surprises me still in 2004, when I am getting it from Middle Easterners as well as Latinos. Actually, a lot of it I think is due to Marx, Lacan, etc. We foolish Americans have been misled by the capitalists, is what they believe, while they know the truth. I think it's Lacan, here in the US we never study that, and my professors roll their eyes when it is brought up. But I am at George Mason which is fairly conservative. I know Lacan is a psychoanalyst, not at all sure how his theories work vis-a-vis history.