Delusions

Tapping the Fifty Shades keg, a woman named Virginia Roberts has accused Britain's Prince Andrew and retired Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz of carting her underage bod off to a series of exotic locations for three years for their own--uh--use.  In the twenty-four pages of her supposed diary, she throws around terms like "sex slave,"  "servitude," and "statutory rape," but never turns down the money, the gifts, the trips, or the lifestyle.

What is it about certain women that their fevered imaginations provide them with secret, glamorous lives in they are adored and--uh--used by famous, powerful men?  The most extreme example Fio ever heard of--on a local TV channel years ago--was a woman who detailed fifteen years of being mailed around from place to place to service the "Illuminati"--which Alex Jones, another delusionist, will tell you is headed by George H. W. Bush.

Maybe, aside from trying to clean up with a lawsuit or the threat of one, some women need to feel they are so highly valued because of their sexuality that great and powerful men will want to enslave them.  It probably has something to do with self-worth being tied in with body image.

That's as close as Fiorella can come to figuring it out
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They're Out to Get You!

What is it with conspiracy theorists?  What compels them to come up with these elaborate, outlandish tales?  What makes an Alex Jones tick?  Obviously, he's paranoid and obsessive, but why?

It isn't as if the phenomenon is new.  Large groups of people have fallen prey to it--like the Middle Ages folk who killed Jews because they believed they were poisoning wells and using Christian babies in their religious rites.  Ignorance is obviously part of the problem.  So is the need for pat answers, for nothing to be random, for everything to fit into a pattern, however tortuous.  High drama, Hollywood level, is also a component.

Fio suspects we all have a bit of the conspiracy theorist in us, an urge to explain the unexplainable in terms of human intervention, but some people got a bigger dose than others.  Alex Jones got an elephant load.