Leifer
Senior Member.
I've usurped and bastardized the idea of the "Where's Waldo" visual game, to describe the idea of current conspiracy thinking, where if he isn't found, he "must" still exist.
(My apologies to it's creator Martin Handford for my re-purposed analogy)
Let me note the obvious, that finding Waldo is not dedicated to conspiracy thought or method. Finding Waldo can certainly be a scientific or logic or brain problem, because somewhere in the real game, he IS there to be found.
But if Waldo is not found by the conspiratorial players version (my analogy), he is found by usage of suspicions and often judgement. The imagined and suggested finding of Waldo when he is not there, is to some, just as valid as a "win".
Listing the topics where my analogy exists could be extensive, but here are a few topics where it is played.....(3 usages off the top of my head)
1) Looking for reasons for the Las Vegas shooter's motives. (I have found the motive, here is my idea)
2) Searching for the launch bases of Chemtrail planes. (Here are the bases, and it's the secret truth)
3) Looking for anomalies in Lunar Landing photos. (I found something weird, to prove my theory)
The reason I'm posting this, is very often, I see conspiracies spouted as truth and with little evidence to back it up......as if they've found Waldo, even though he is not seen.
(My apologies to it's creator Martin Handford for my re-purposed analogy)
Let me note the obvious, that finding Waldo is not dedicated to conspiracy thought or method. Finding Waldo can certainly be a scientific or logic or brain problem, because somewhere in the real game, he IS there to be found.
But if Waldo is not found by the conspiratorial players version (my analogy), he is found by usage of suspicions and often judgement. The imagined and suggested finding of Waldo when he is not there, is to some, just as valid as a "win".
Listing the topics where my analogy exists could be extensive, but here are a few topics where it is played.....(3 usages off the top of my head)
1) Looking for reasons for the Las Vegas shooter's motives. (I have found the motive, here is my idea)
2) Searching for the launch bases of Chemtrail planes. (Here are the bases, and it's the secret truth)
3) Looking for anomalies in Lunar Landing photos. (I found something weird, to prove my theory)
The reason I'm posting this, is very often, I see conspiracies spouted as truth and with little evidence to back it up......as if they've found Waldo, even though he is not seen.
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