might not be government , but private sector manipulations would be easier for you to consider?
not trying to convince anyone of course, I dont have any evidence this was more than a whacko with guns, for now.
I like open minds and your style of discourse.
Thanks, I'm happy to have a discussion with you on this too.
The thing is, I don't see how or why a private sector would be involved. We have no idea why the shooter did the deed, we can only speculate that there was a second shooter and now we bring in a hypothetical third party?
Google fake news and Las Vegas. The second shooter story is already being called a fake conspiracy theory by the police and most media sources. I agree that there could be a second shooter but I'm skeptical and the people who ought to know are saying there wasn't.
Rather than speculate about something on which we have no information, let's talk about conspiracy theorists or those who tend to believe them.
Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html
“The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy theories,” says Viren Swami, a psychology professor who studies conspiracy belief at the University of Westminster in England. Psychologists say that’s because a conspiracy theory isn’t so much a response to a single event as it is an expression of an overarching worldview."
People who tend to believe conspiracy theories are more likely to believe the next one. I don't tend to believe conspiracy theories because they don't pass my personal sniff test for complexity. While I don't deny that two people could have done the dirty deed, why hasn't anybody close to the investigation said so? The conspiracy theorist has to claim that somebody is lying and other people who know aren't saying anything. At that point, my personal bullshit detector pops up because it's really hard to keep secrets without increasing the body count (dead men don't talk) which is what actually happened in Russian embassies not too long ago. The dead Russian body count is one of the reasons I believe that Russians conspired to affect our election.
This passage from the nytimes article is interesting as well:
Economic recessions, terrorist attacks and natural disasters are massive, looming threats, but we have little power over when they occur or how or what happens afterward. In these moments of powerlessness and uncertainty, a part of the brain called the amygdala kicks into action. Paul Whalen, a scientist at Dartmouth College who studies the amygdala, says it doesn’t exactly do anything on its own. Instead, the amygdala jump-starts the rest of the brain into analytical overdrive — prompting repeated reassessments of information in an attempt to create a coherent and understandable narrative, to understand what just happened, what threats still exist and what should be done now. This may be a useful way to understand how, writ large, the brain’s capacity for generating new narratives after shocking events can contribute to so much paranoia in this country.
“If you know the truth and others don’t, that’s one way you can reassert feelings of having agency,” Swami says.
So basically, my first instinct is to reject conspiracy theories because they are too easy to fabricate and we want to believe them.