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So I am an avid conspiritress, I often enjoy a good conspiracy theory, and I’m grateful to see people question narratives and think for themselves, however odd or confused they may appear on the surface. On a grand scale however, I am also keenly aware that the ability, the freedom, the innocence required to chase after conspiracy theories lives somewhere among the sheltered, naive, and protected. The privileged.
People who are busy just trying to survive don’t have time to try to see what’s going on behind the scenes. What’s going on right in front of them is usually more then they can handle.
Does a child being sex trafficked spend hours on Twitter trying to expose the truth about how the world is being run by elite pedophiles? They do not, because they are there, already living it.
You don’t have to tell the victims of the Tuskeegee Syphalis experiment that government and public health officials can be very self serving, unethical, devoid of compassion, and downright genocidal. Heck, germ warfare itself goes back at least as far as smallpox blankets and opium wars.
You do not have to tell a war torn, impoverished, 3rd world country that has been “blessed” with assorted “peace keeping missions,” that the world is ruled by powerful political interests who have formed a new world order, a one world system, in which you are nothing more then collateral damage.
So you see, in order for any of these things to now be perceived as a “conspiracy theory,” you really have to have some major privilege and live in a very protected bubble where the reality of recent history does not even penetrate. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, that’s just some prime real estate. Privilege.
Also that’s pretty much been the conservative mindset for the past few decades. My life is good, must be something wrong with you. Maybe you just need to get more education and work harder……
Sometimes I get really irritated with people. Conspiracy theories kind of went mainstream when they all started coming true. Now we are being flooded by all this “breaking news,” at least on social media and in the political realm. Hey, did you know that the CIA is not always a benevolent entity that exists inclusively to serve the American people? Why no, no, I had no idea! How will I ever incorporate this new found “wisdom” into the fabric of my universe??
I mean seriously, what alternate reality have people been living in? The top secret alphabet people have always served at the pleasure of their elite overlords and the many incidences of corruption are well documented. Cross referenced. There have been congressional investigations. Books have been written! This is so not, “breaking news.”
To add insult to injury, many people are still naive enough to think if someone just reveals “the truth,” people will be so horrified they’ll do something to try to change it. The thing is, it’s not that people don’t “know” the truth, it’s that they truly don’t care until it impacts them or their tribe, personally. I’m not sure what grates on my nerves more, the sudden feigned concern about what’s going on in the world or the past 50 years of complete indifference??
I often have to remind myself that indeed, there are people so privileged, so complacent and comfortable, so completely disinterested in the suffering of those around them, that they have never paid any attention to what was really going on. As far as they are concerned, truth, justice, and the American way began to start to disintegrate just a few short years ago. I’m not just lamenting the blind foolishness of many who call themselves conservatives. The other half seem to think now that Trump is out of office, all is right with our world and we’re busy benevolently making everyone’s life better.
Well, that 50 years of complete indifference towards the suffering of those around us, the lives of our neighbors, is why we now find ourselves in our current situation, reaping everything we have sown. Our values, our ethics, our morals, the law, simply can’t vary depending on whether or not your team is benefiting from them or being persecuted by them. We need common ground to stand on, ground that does not move around depending on which way the wind blows.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
What a coincidence, I was just listening to 2 different interviews of Whitney Webb talking about all kinds of conspiracy facts.
Glenn Beck interviewed her 1st:
Then Viva Frei:
They ask themselves the musical question, how could Mark Middleton hang himself and then
shoot himself with a shot gun.
It’s elementary, my dear Watson, he shot himself 1st, then he hanged himself.
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Yup, he was trying to change a lightbulb and couldn’t reach it so he got his shotgun. He dropped the shotgun which set it off, fell off his ladder when hit with the shot, and got entangled in the rope he was using to steady himself. QED. I think I hurt my brain.
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Those are awesome interviews, Jsol! I will definitely watch them more thoroughly later today and check that gal out. She does seem to have a good head on her shoulders.
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Reblogged this on Citizen Tom and commented:
“Great minds think alike.” What a truism!
I got this comment from sklyjd: https://citizentom.com/2023/01/11/what-liberal-democrats-want-us-believe-about-their-self-or-their-perfect-goodness-2/comment-page-1/#comment-106726.
I still plan to do a post on sklyjd’s charges, pointing out that all his conspiracies theories were hyped by the Liberal Democrat news media so they could charge Conservatives, including Trump, with a conspiracy. However, when I saw insanitybytes22’s post, I could not wait to reblog it.
Why do conspiracy theories catch on? Most of us really don’t care that much. We are too lazy to study the things we supposedly care about. So, we don’t do our homework. We just mindless follow the rest of the herd and repeat with the herd is saying, thinking that proves we care, at least as much as everyone else.
What most people don’t seem to get is the actual truth of an old saying, “change begins with me.”
Very few people have much power, and even the power of great leaders is limited. The most important thing George Washington did was to set a good example. Great leaders don’t make people change. Instead, they change themselves, and they encourage others to copy them.
What did Jesus do for His apostles. Yes, He died on the cross for our sins, and only God could do that, but He also did things that we can do, if not so well. He loved His disciples, and He washed their feet. He even loved the people who crucified Him, and He forgave them of their foolishness.
Look to your family, friends, neighbors, and countrymen. What kind of example have you set? Are you mindlessly following the herd, or are you doing your best to be good?
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Amen, Tom! Thank you for the kind words and the reblog.
Something I do in comment sections is roll my eyes the moment I read, “that much is absolutely clear.” The many, varied things going on in the world are often about as clear as mud! So when people insist something is cut and dry, absolutely clear, they are almost always just repeating a narrative, doing as they have been told. There’s a joke about that kind of mindset, the “orange man bad,” syndrome.
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Yep!
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“The thing is, it’s not that people don’t “know” the truth, it’s that they truly don’t care until it impacts them or their tribe,”
This is it in a nutshell. Imagine if it were Kevin McCarthy hiding video footage from January 6th for 50 years? I’m sure the other tribe would be apoplectic.
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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Oh my goodness, it is absolutely criminal to with hold video tape of an alleged crime for some 50 years, all because said video might be useful to the defense! What we have done to those defendants is absolutely appalling, criminal, unethical, unbelievable. A complete travesty.
I recently sat there with my mouth open watching some heads of state have a memorial for all the officers killed that day. What made is so chilling was that the number of officers killed that day is ZERO. It is a total lie, a complete fabrication. But the average guy on the street doesn’t know that! He just sees the tears, the tributes to, “all the brave officers who gave their lives in the line of duty that day.”
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Exactly. And if you mention that Trump requested the presence of the National Guard that day, but was denied, well, you’re a conspiracy nut, hence the Orwell quote.
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“All the officers”??? Did they name names?
“Conspiracy theories kind of went mainstream when they all started coming true.” Bingo. Reminds me of the riddle:
Q – What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact?
A – About six months.
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I appreciate you sharing this, because I struggle with seeing what’s going on and just having SO MANY THOUGHTS! But, I don’t talk about it with anyone. It’s good to hear someone’s thoughts on it, that I reflect.
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Oops, sorry. I found you and fished you out. 🙂
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No problem.
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100 years ago or thereabouts we started using an educational platform whose first premise is that the mind of a child is empty. We insisted in putting stuff into it and the problem has finally come to fruition…eventually the stuff that is put into the mind drains out or becomes putrid. We are taught to NOT THINK! Answer the questions, do the steps so that your answer is acceptable to the teacher. And if the teacher’s head was originally empty, her head is filled with stupid stuff, too. As was her teacher, and HER teacher. Do we automatically start thinking when we graduate from middle school? high school? college? Have you ever sat in a masterclass and wondered, “I paid money for this! When does he tell me something important?” and then sit to the end of the class anyway? We must engage people in thinking through stuff from a very young age and it will take a long time to reverse this trend because it’s so ingrained in our educational system, which, by the way, is very conducive to 19th century industrialism…sit in rows, do what you’re told, keep up with the conveyor belt.
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You are quite right! We often go from school right into the corporate world where our job once again is to not think, to do as we’re told, and to sit through endless boring meetings that tell us nothing, kind of like that master class you spoke of.
My parents did a lot of things wrong, but one thing they got right was that they didn’t send us to school. Education, learning, is amazing, we need more of that, but “schooling” is something entirely different. As the saying goes, you are not taught how to think but rather what to think.
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Check out my FeganMethod.com. I’m trying to change how education works, because, let’s face it…it doesn’t
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Kennedy assassination? Yeah, govt never lies. At the time, when people knew it was an inside job, they were called miserable freaks and conspiracy loons. But lies spread quicker than CA wildfires. Can’t fool the pure in heart though right?
40 yrs from now, the secret files of the moon landing……..??? Luv your last thought msB about stable ground. Really need to wrap our minds around that. Am I now counted as one of the deluded for rejecting the Star Trek version of earth and heaven. Maybe conspiracies have teeth because we can’t handle the truth?
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Ha! I still enjoy Star Trek, but many people don’t seem to realize it’s a TV show, a fantasy, a drama. This is not “science.” This is not even observable reality, it is entertainment.
Speaking of “entertainment,” I just watched a clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson acting like a complete lunkhead, outright rejecting some pretty clear, established science because it just didn’t jibe with his worldview. He was all emotional and having a complete meltdown. Darkly humorous, but the commercial that ran cut to Martha Stewart sharpening a sword in a rather intimidating way and telling us to all get another booster or else! I am chuckling, but both of these people are absolutely insane and should never be granted any authority over anything, ever. And yet here we are, doing just that! We are actually getting our medical advice from Martha and our science from Neil. Sheesh.
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I missed that. What was Tyson talking about? Where can I find that clip?
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Pick any neil clip Rebecca. He is the master of prolixity. Hot air/ zero intellectual humility- it’s a broken record. Make a good circus performer though. Hope u appreciate my restraint in not saying what i really think.
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Restraint is admirable.
He looks like he hates being interviewed by stupid people, which he considers anyone that isn’t a scientist or a genius.
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Scientist and/or genius?
Well, that rules him out on both counts.
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“Ha! I still enjoy Star Trek, but many people don’t seem to realize it’s a TV show, a fantasy, a drama. This is not “science.” ”
Exactly. I love Gilligan’s Island too, but, I’m not suffering under the delusion that it’s any help teaching me about how to survive when marooned on a desert island. Except for the coconut creme pies, I intend to be living on those, and also be listening to the news on my coconut shell radio. And if Mary Ann is there I’ll be quite content.
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Tom, IB,
Not sure no one cares is the root.
Many do care, but have found out how powerless their or words are, and how powerful advertisements on tv one week before elections can be to accuse adversaries who have small campaign funds to pay for political TV abd radio advertisements obtained funds from funding benefactors..
That is of course, providing the politicians were/are…“obedient politicians” during their terms in office to their campaign funds benefactors..
Or while in office, they did not do something really politically foolish and became the center of attention in the news.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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I think you make a good point, Rudy! I really should not make absolutes like that and declare, “nobody cares” as if nobody means “everybody.” It’s probably more accurate to say, “a great many people” don’t care until something impacts them personally. Another good chunk of other people really do care, they are simply powerless and don’t know what to do about it all.
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Feeling powerless…yes. It’s not just at having a small voice, but also knowing I’m being lied to and not having access to the facts. So essentially, I can’t know the truth. Boy, did Covid bring this frustration to the fore.
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Their “new” world seems more like a retreat to a very old one … Could these cycles of advance, then retreat be a price of combining self preservation with social imperatives?
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Yes! Much of what is going on in our modern world is not unprecedented at all, it is somewhat predictable based on human behavior and our prior history. We are horrified by things like germ warfare (as we should be) but I mentioned smallpox blankets and the opium wars, both things that went on long before any of us were born.
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Thank you, Clyde.:)
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Reblogged this on boudica.us and commented:
H/T Citizen Tom
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The thing to remember about Conspiracy Theories is that the same people who tell us not to believe them are the same ones who are talking about ‘controlling the narrative.’ It was just announced this week that the upcoming agenda at the WEF meeting this year will be drafting a plan for Big Government and Big Business to work together to fight ‘online misinformation.’ Naturally, misinformation is going to be whatever governments and corporations say it is.
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Ha! Recently I was thinking we really do need some kind of standard, a bill of rights for defining a “conspiracy theory.” Like, if the illuminati are holding a meeting and laying out their plans for world domination, complete with an easily accessible public website with a color coded bullet point agenda, you aren’t allowed to call it a “conspiracy theory” anymore. To “conspire” implies secrecy and a cover up, not public speeches and outright advertising.
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What’s especially amazing is that these days. many of these elite organizations often DO publicize their plans and admit to their goals; but anybody who brings it up is laughed at and shut down as a conspiracy kook of some kind.
For example, on Jan 6th, 2021, Time Magazine—which is owned by a guy who holds THREE top positions in the WEF—wrote a whole issue bragging about how they rigged the 2020 Election to overthrow Trump. The MSM still refers to “baseless and unfounded claims of election fraud” like a bunch of mockingbirds, and nobody has ever investigated the claims made in Time over any of it.
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Most of our conspiracy theories turned out to be spoiler alerts.
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That common ground is available, just not acceptable. It requires accountability. It can be found in a lot of Jesus’ teachings. Oh! That’s the unacceptable part! But, if you want progressive, you might check Him out. Progress like go to the back of the line. But that’s where I was two hours ago! Oh, my, I have dug so many rabbit holes!
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Ha! That’s a lot of rabbit holes and you sure are a rabbit rouser, Oneta! 🙂
Yes, amen, accountability is the key. Real leaders don’t just take responsibility for themselves, they often take responsibility for those under their care, too. That’s what makes them leaders.
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Night, IB. You take care of that Pacific side; I’ll handle the Great Plains. 😀 We will both only accomplish what God sanctions for us. If he would let me, there would be lots of Ananias and Sapphira’s lying around ready to be carried to the dump. I love the way you can generally chase the same rabbit I am after.
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As for conspiracies go there were always some I believed and the harder the other side fought against it the more truth I felt there was to it. I learned to think for myself pretty young because if I hadn’t I probably wouldn’t have made it to almost 61 years. I hated school, but not learning because school has very little to do with learning. As soon as I turned 16 years old I quit school and taught myself what I wanted to learn and what I felt was practical for my life. I still learn the same way as I did all those decades ago.
I agree with you that the ones in the thick of something are not the ones trying to get the truth of it out there. Growing up I did not go around trying to teach people why it was a bad idea for an alcoholic and a child predator to be raising children I was trying to survive it as best as I could. I do now try to educate people about those things along with abortion, drug abuse, and animal cruelty. You may wonder why animal cruelty and that is two-fold first is most abusers start out abusing animals and if you find someone is willing to torture an animal it is likely they would do it to a child or a woman and the other is I love animals and no living being should be tortured. I don’t believe all conspiracies though like aliens I do believe people are seeing things, but I do not believe they are aliens. That is another subject for another time though…maybe.
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Back in the 50s and 60s, psychiatrists began seeing a connection (especially with boys) that abusive behavior often was part of an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Complex. A tyrannical or sadistic father for example instilled in these boys a obsessive fear, but the boys would react in anger by compulsively torturing animals or girls. They were actually rebelling against the father—not by being better than him—but by proving that they could be worse. They actually had a fairly successful cure-rate with Analysis, but now the doctors are Dead White Males since Big Pharma found it more profitable to push psych-dope on the abusers which only makes them worse.
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IB
After reading your reply and the comments on your post, it dawned on me that I just wrote a post an the conundrum of “reality vs truth,”
The root of the success of beliefs of conspiracies is related to trust. For example, this statement
“Reality is an existent fact whereas truth is an established fact. There is lot of difference between an existent fact and an established fact. “
If interested,
In other words, the truth of many conspiracies is fueled by mistrust of the sources .
Or in order to discern the differences of statements is to follow the advice of this idiom.
“Consider the sources “
another way of saying that any information received from a certain source can’t be taken seriously because that source has been wrong before, or lacks credibility.
Problem arisses, we humans all make mistakes. The only human I trust to have been 100 percent credible in the past 2000 years is Jesus Christ in the New Testament of the Bible.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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I’m afraid that a lot of truth we would like to know is inaccessible. Like, for example, even as a 4 year old kid I did not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was solely responsible for the murder of President JFK. But, the problem is, like Charlie Chan used to say in his murder mystery movies, “Everyone have motive to murder victim.” It may be true that everyone have motive, but, that doesn’t prove that everyone did it, or that anyone in particular did it. Mick Jagger saying “After all, it was you and me” doesn’t help either.
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Solbakken
Thanks for your comment. It is indeed a conundrum in our contemporary times to find the time to check out every source of news or opinion or conspiracy floating around on tv, radio, newsprint or internet for credibility whether it is a factual reality, truth or false gossip.
Most 4 year olds trust their parents.
In my opinion, and age of 82, the only one I trust is Jesus Christ because nothing he ever said has proven over time to harm anyone who understands and follows his teachings.
Regards and goodwill blogging
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Yes, it’s frustratingly inaccessible. I just wrote this in an above comment. It is one of the most frustrating aspects of the world to me, knowing we’re being lied to and having no way to prove it absolutely.
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Good post! I think since 2020 there’s things I use to think was conspiriacy theory, that aren’t so anymore. Gotta be discerning…and careful. Evil people in power can do things
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The question I ask people who try to ridicule me for entertaining what they call “conspiracy” “theories” is:
Do you suppose that billionaires who run the world are the sort of folks who let the chips fall where they may? Are they content to just let the mop flop? Or, are they the type who like to have their little duckies all in neat little rows? Do they like to manage their risks?
I submit to you, O gullible one(s), that grand conspiracies are merely a matter of due diligence for the people who took over the world whilst we were playing with our stupidity-fones.
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IB, I think you make a great point. Over 50 years ago, people handed caring for their neighbor over to the government. If the government cares for the suffering around us, why should we? That leaves us free to have one hell of a good time breeding babies that get aborted. It leaves us free to eat, drink, drug and get obscenely fat. What’s not to like about handing all our caring over to the government, that by nature, can only make rules and enforce them?
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Good point, Silence. Government cannot love, it cannot care, it can only create bureaucracies and spend money. Most people are not actually having, “a hell of a good time,” they are trying to drown their pain out with food, sex, and alcohol/drugs. It turns out that loving one another, having stable relationships, and problem solving, is vital to our own spiritual and mental health. We now outsource all those things to the government who even does out thinking for us at this point.
I’m fond of the old word for love in the KJV of the Bible, “charity,” because charity is not really about money or bureaucracy at all, it’s about love. And “love” is actually about showing grace and being charitable towards others. Today we say we “love everybody,” but there is very little charity going on in the world and we are not being charitable towards one another at all.
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I think there’s a lot of people near the “top” of the social stratus who don’t like the idea of conspiracy theories, because a lot of conspiracies could call into question the reality of their comfortable existence.
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Yep! 👍
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My goodness…54 comments? You hit a nerve! LOL! I would add that of course schools teach empty minds to regurgitate useless dribble. Why in the world would they teach the next generation, or the next, to think critically? That would mean they would be able to take over. Can’t have that happening now, can they. I’m just glad that a lot of GenX-ers seem to be the last generation to question things. Although I’m starting to see from my son, who is 17, that he and his friend are taking on some of the doubt that GenX had. They’ve got a long way to go, but it may be a crack in the armor. I pray that it is.
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