Excellent article 9/11 conspiracy theorists in the paper today.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...483/story.html
In an analysis of conspiracist thinking, British psychologist Patrick Leman suggested in a 2007 New Scientist paper that belief in conspiracies, however outlandish, is a coping mechanism for the insecure. That on the one hand, convincing ourselves of conspiracy theories wishes away the stark, terrifying arbitrariness of life on this Earth, or, on the other, compensates for a sense of disempowerment and enables people to blame personal failures on the clandestine machinations of a malevolent governing system that conspires to keep them down and from knowing the truth of their evil schemes.
And this is how I view guys like Mikey. Insecure, uneducated people looking to blame the world on their personal failures. Listen to coast to coast at night. Maybe this explians why virtually every person calling into that show with a whacked out theory is some unemployed loser living next to a garbage dump in a trailer, without internet access.
It is not often you see successful, well heeled people buying into this BS. I am sure mikey will point out one person, which means to a conspiracy theorist, every single one, but thats just how these dellusional people operate.