There are people who seek to control and oppress us. Like the Rosicrucians who foresaw the loss of the Twin Towers in 1997. Can you believe it? I’ve read their drek for 20 years.
I’m just a lonely voice, like most of you. I tried to get on Philadelphia’s Dom Giordano radio show at WPHT this morning, but no luck.
He was fired up about conspiracy theories. He hung up on a guy who accused John Bolton of doing nothing to inhibit the U.N.’s Agenda 21. (He was right.) He did a peroration to the effect that he’s the last talk show guy anyone should go to with a conspiracy theory. (He was wrong.) He’s 100 percent opposed. To conspiracy theories. The callers’ problem is not that there’s an unexposed conspiracy but that they can’t tell the difference between conspiracy and lunacy. Dom’s error is that he refuses to comprehend ANY conspiracy, even the ones that work.
I told his screeners there are at least two kinds of conspiracies — crazy conspiracies, which can’t be true, and moderately successful conspiracies, which are not only true but a fact of life. There’s a way to distinguish between them without going nuclear.
But I missed the window. Giordano had moved on, and the screener came back on the line to tell me that. So I’ll forward this post to the show. In his favor, he generally answers. So the rest of this is for him and, more importantly, the rest of you. Because we do live in an age of conspiracy. Meaning, effective conspiracy.
Sorry, Dom. Ranting isn’t the rebuttal. People know things aren’t right.
The 9/11 Conspiracy Theories are crazy because too many people would have had to be involved with far more risk than reward. Air traffic controllers, building implosion experts, and all their hourly paid employees. And more, on and on. Where substitute planes were landed to hide the central plot of airliner shells sent as missiles into the Twin Towers. Blah blah blah.
Too elaborate? No. Not really. Too elaborate with no set of cascading incentives among like minded people.
Which is the mark of conspiracies that actually work for a time. Despite all Dom Giordano’s Manachaean distinctions between people who believe in conspiracies and those who don’t.
Unpleasant fact. There ARE conspiracies and many of them prosper for at least a while.
How do they differ from the crazy conspiracy theories? Follow the money and the power. They are not the work of secret societies. They do not engineer massive events. They operate mostly in the open. Their co-conspirators are not members of the elect sworn into a secret cabal. They’re just people who know which side their bread is buttered on.
Two examples of successful conspiracies. Global Warming hysteria. And passage of ObamaCare. Both were accomplished with amazing untruths and faked statistics. Which obviously involved complicity by hundreds if not thousands of people. The motives had nothing to do with the public welfare but private selfish ends. In both cases, the trusted people involved betrayed their trust and made themselves willing accomplices in propaganda, lies, and political arguments that had nothing to do with their real incentives.
To tell a real conspiracy from a crazy conspiracy, the route is simple: Follow the money and the power.
The Pope is on record opposing trickle down. Guess how most conspiracies begin and succeed. There’s no meeting populated by disciples wearing hoods. There’s just an atmosphere created in which the conspirators prosper, for their own private reasons, and the resistance to the conspiracy gets massacred in the media. uh, period. Everything is trickle down, from the media to the masses. End of mystery.
There was no secret cult of Global Warming which handed out marching orders and instructions about how to falsify data. There was just a loose agglomeration of lefty scientists whose careers were in thrall to other agreeable lefties, all of whom agreed that scientists should be in charge of a new age of reason, and Global Reason was their way to do it. Along the way, they forgot that the science which was their credential didn’t matter anymore, because if necessary they could just fake it. Why? Because the Global Warming hypothesis gave them grants, tenure, public attention, and a sense of personal importance. After all, they know better than anyone that science is a moving target. Genius today, joke tomorrow. When the next guy proves you’re a fool.
ObamaCare. An obvious conspiracy. With media help. My point about a loose affiliation of people with similar incentives and like minds. It was always a fraud. Massive income redistribution disguised as health reform. There were no orders from the White House to the media. Akin to the IRS scandal, Benghazi, and Fast & Furious. Any of which would have brought down a Republican presidency. Smoking guns weren’t necessary because the beneficiaries all understood what they had to gain and lose. Careers, lobbying fortunes, book contracts, and shameless network appearances in the future, which is orchestrated for the world by oh-so-friendly NBC.
Just this loose cascading conspiracy that made Brian Williams a celebrity for kissing Obama’s ass, and the same with all the mass media and magazine coverage, who leveraged Obama celebrity into career celebrity. Loose affiliations. Emphasis on the word “loose.”
All right. I’ll stop. There ARE conspiracies aplenty. They don’t all succeed. Some do.
Oh. You’re still puzzled by my top graphic. Sorry. Here’s a locus called Sinister Sites. Pay close attention to posts about St. John the Divine Cathedral in NY and the Georgia Guidestones.
Thank you for the links. I’ve just spent the last 20 minutes or so learning how Monster High dolls & Rhianna are secretly advancing the Illuminati agenda and that Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut was so fantastic it deserves a three-part essay (!) to explain all of its hidden symbolism (as well as to advance the possibility he was assassinated). And all this time I thought it was merely an uninteresting last gasp from an overrated director.
Ah yes, and I also saw something about the Knights Templar. That was the point I sighed and had to stop reading the bit about St. John’s. The post looks to have continued on for several thousand more kilobytes’ worth of text, so no doubt I missed a lot more startling information. “Dreck” is right. Sad to see arguably the biggest badasses of the Middle Ages slandered even to this day. You’d think they could be left alone. This website reads a lot like the plot of a videogame series called Assassin’s Creed, the plot of which is that the Templars are THE secret organization that has actually been running all the other secret organizations (including the Masons & Illuminati, natch) from the beginning of time to modern day, with the help of aliens or something. It’s made in Canada.
Anyway, sorry you didn’t get on the radio but good news: a little something for Christmas for you & Lady Laird should arrive by tomorrow, snow willing (I opted for hardcover; the Freemason hackers can’t erase that). Coincidentally, it has a lot to do with the Knights Templar. I fully realize how difficult it is to find books you like, so my feelings won’t be hurt if you don’t enjoy it. The missus may like it, though. It’s for both of you, so you’re not allowed to hog it.
PS – I was already having trouble compiling a movie list, and based on what I’ve learned from Vigilant Citizen I’ve found that many of my favorites are actually subliminal kitten mind control programing propaganda. I’m going to have to rework everything with this in mind but as you might expect, Eyes Wide Shut will be number on whatever I come up with.
“Eyes Wide Shut” was just about gettin’ nekkid and bein’ really naughty.
Otherwise, you’re just thinking everything that They want you to think.
Maybe it’s just because I read too much H.P. Lovecraft in my youth, but when I first saw Eyes Wide Shut, I thought the party was an actual Satanic cult. Until the movie explained it was just a sex party.
At this point I almost wish the bad guys were outright Satanists. Then they’d at least have a sense of style and some kind of respect for their Satanic heritage, instead of just posting snarky comments on the Internet.
Conspiracy theories have a gravity for me. It’s entirely too easy for me to get drawn into them… Especially when bathed in the glow of a computer monitor at 2am. I don’t know if that’s an artifact of being raised in conservative Christian fundamentalism (itself a form of conspiracy theory), or if it’s something hardwired in me. A really well-crafted conspiracy theory can seem just so… rational… that I find it takes effort to disbelieve even though my common sense tells me it’s hogwash.
Chesterton has a completely brilliant piece on the nature of rationality (and madness — or conspiracy theories) in Orthodoxy. It’s the third chapter, “The Maniac“. This is probably the one piece by GKC that has affected me more than any other, because it didn’t give me an argument — it gave me air. I’d excerpt it here, but I can never find the place to stop the copy/paste. It’s worth a read in its entirety.
I was listening to Savage today, and he mentioned this story:
http://www.offthegridnews.com/2010/10/08/is-free-thinking-a-mental-illness/
Who needs “conspiracy theories” when you have excrement like this?
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death; thoughtcrime IS death.”
The global warming one is a great example because of just how big it’s gotten. The fault in this case lies with the incestuous and politicized peer review system. Papers that don’t validate the whole AGW idea are simply discarded as they undergo the year-long process of getting published in journals. Papers that hype the alarm or build connections between climate and bad weather get fast-tracked. When all of the papers’ referees are within the same tiny circle of chums, dissenting data or analyses need not apply.
This past year, the conspiracy thing went meta. AGW alarmists created a terribly conceived survey, screwed up the collection, then tried to link global warming skeptics (the new Holocaust deniers) with conspiracy nuts. Take a look at the long and detailed picking apart of the dreck:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=conspiracy
http://climateaudit.org/2012/09/20/conspiracy-theorist-lewandowsky-tries-to-manufacture-doubt/
Essentially, they claim that denying runaway manmade global warming is akin to 9/11 and moon hoax conspiracy theories. Ironically, they are in the thick of the conspiracy itself.
Unlike most conspiracies, this one is not lost to time — its unraveling still lies in the future. Unless time travel is invented, JFK, 9/11, and the moon hoax can never be decisively proved otherwise to true believers. But as the decades roll by (17 years now) that the crock measurement of ‘global temperature’ stays flatlined or even dips down (due to the weak solar cycle), they simply won’t have a leg to stand on. Like Obamacare, I expect a half-exodus of the disillusioned, and a half-doubling down on the rotten core ideas by the most rabid believers. ‘All the heat went into the deep oceans’ is the new explanation, but with no mechanism for doing so and better measurements at deeper levels, that one will crumble too.
‘All the heat went into the deep oceans’ is the new explanation…
Yeah, I saw that, too. It’s funny. Just like they predicted would happen all along, right…?
They are *really* grasping at straws now, and it’s only going to get worse. The tearing sound as the extremists separate from the suckers they hooked in will be audible.