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PROMPT November 20th In your blog tonight/today, write about a story you've been told, or use a newscast story and CREATE a conspiracy theory. Tell us why you chose this subject, and of course, provide 'evidence' that your theory could be rooted in truth. This prompt has me scratching my head. I really don’t want to go for the obvious. I was thinking more of misdirection than actual conspiracy. You know things like the English only eat chips and don’t bathe much, (that one was prevalent in Australia when we arrived in ‘72) White people can’t dance like the black population. There is probably more than a grain of truth in that one. Then there’s the actual conspiracy we tell our children about the existence of Father Christmas. That one is world wide and it seems everyone is willing to keep it going. Even the disappointment the children feel, doesn’t stop them inflicting the same conspiracy on their own children. If I lived in North Korea my whole life would be built on conspiracies. Everything the population is allowed to know is one long conspiracy. Let’s be thankful we live in a world where we are free to decide for ourselves that what we’re being told is either true or just a load of …. |