{"id":8863,"date":"2013-11-22T23:40:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:40:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:40:25","slug":"finding-order-where-there-is-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/finding-order-where-there-is-none\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding order where there is none"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jfk-assassination.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jfk-assassination-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"jfk-assassination\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jfk-assassination-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jfk-assassination.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2013\/11\/22\/the-conspiracy-theory-narrative\/\">Via Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, Benjamin Wallace-Wells\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/features\/conspiracy-theories\/50-years-of-conspiracy-theories\/\">examination<\/a> of American conspiracism in <em>New York<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The seduction of conspiracy is the way it orders chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm, that sounds like another phenomenon I could mention, which makes this entertainingly ironic :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the summer of 1964, the English philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell\u2014past 90 years old then and possibly the most famously rational person on the planet\u2014read the early accounts of the Warren Commission Report with mounting alarm. None of the important questions, he thought, were being answered. There was the matter of the parade route being changed without explanation at the last minute, so that the motorcade passed Lee Harvey Oswald\u2019s workplace; the geometrically confounding arrangement of entry and exit wounds; the curious fact that an alibi witness who helped get an alternate suspect released from custody turned out to be a stripper at Jack Ruby\u2019s club. The logician went to work. Meticulously, Russell documented the discrepancies between each first-person account and the divergences between each report in the media. He gave his document a modest, scientific-sounding title (\u201c16 Questions on the Assassination\u201d) and a just-the-facts tone\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bertrand, Bertrand, Bertrand. <\/p>\n<p>Just another reminder that the impulses that played such a part in the creation of religious belief will always be with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Andrew Sullivan, Benjamin Wallace-Wells\u2019 examination of American conspiracism in New York magazine: The seduction of conspiracy is the way it orders chaos. Hmmm, that sounds like another phenomenon I could mention, which makes this entertainingly ironic : In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/finding-order-where-there-is-none\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711,13],"tags":[1039,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}