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Ursprungligen postat av Homo Insularis
Jag menar teorierna om en ohelig allians mellan organisationer som WHO och Världsbanken vilka är helt ägnade att tillse att en liten elit i den rika världen behåller makten över de mindre bemedlade. Ur den aspekten är Chomsky konspirationsteoretiker.
Däremot tror jag han hyser den gängse åsikten om förintelsen.
Chomsky har följande att säga om konspirationsteorier, från boken
Understanding Power:
"Part of the structure of corporate capitalism is that the players in the game try to increase profits and market shares – if they don't do that, they will no longer be players in the game. Any economist knows this: it's not a conspiracy theory to point that out, it's just taken for granted as an institutional fact. If someone were to say, ”Oh no, that's a conspiracy theory”, people would laugh. Well, what we've been discussing are simply the institutional factors that set the boundaries for reporting and interpretation in the ideological institutions. That's the opposite of conspiracy theory, it's just normal institutional analysis, the kind of analysis you do automatically when you're trying to understand how the world works. For people to call it ”conspiracy theory” is part of the effort to prevent an understanding of how the world works, in my view - ”conspiracy theory” has become the intellectual equivalent of a four-letter word: it's something people say when they don't want you to think about what's really going on.
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Every example of planning decisions in the society is a case where some people got together and tried to use whatever power they could draw upon to achieve a result – if you like, those are ”conspiracies”. That means that almost everything that happens in the world is a ”conspiracy”. [...]
Every business decision, every editorial decision is a conspiracy. [...] Okay, obviously that's not interesting: all decisions involve people. So the real question is, are there groupings well outside the structures of the major institutions of the society which go around them, hijack them, undermine them, pursue other courses without an institutional base, and so on and so forth? And that's a question of fact: do significant things happen because groups or subgroups are acting in secret outside the main structure of institutional power?
Well, as I look over history, I don't find much of that.
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This term ”conspiracy theory” is an interesting one. For example, if I was talking about Soviet planning and I said, ”Look, here's what the Politburo decided, and then the Kremlin did this”, nobody would call that a ”conspiracy theory” - everyone would just assume I was talking about planning. But as soon as you start talking about anything that's done by the power in the West, then everybody calls it a ”conspiracy theory”. [...] The guys in power aren't idiots, after all. They do planning. In fact, they do very careful and sophisticated planning. But anybody who talks about it, and uses government records or anything else to back it up, is into ”conspiracy theory”. [...] In other words, as soon as you describe elementary reality and attribute minimal rationality to people with power – well, that's fine as long as it's an enemy, but if it's part of domestic power, it's a ”conspiracy theory” and you're not supposed to talk about it.
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There is just no doubt that a lot of very conscious planning goes on among intelligent people who are trying to maximize their power. They'd be insane if they didn't do that. I mean, I'm not telling you anything new when I tell you that top editors, top government officials, and major businessmen have meetings together – of course. And not only do they have meetings, they belong to the same golf clubs, they go to the same parties, they went to the same schools, they flow up and back from one position to another in the government and private sector, and so on and so forth. In other words, they represent the same social class: they'd be crazy if they didn't communicate and plan with each other.
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Now, the only significant question to ask is, is it intelligent planning? Okay, that depends on what the goals are. If the goals are to maximize corporate profits for tomorrow, then it's very intelligent planning. If the goals are to have a world where your children can survive, then it's completely idiotic."