My #1 Problem With Conspiracy Theorists
While I’m at it, here are all the problems I have with Conspiracy Theorists:
1. They have no BS detector. Few CTs will tell you that they believe in this wacky idea, but this other wacky idea is crazy and wrong. Typically they will believe anything and everything, because they want the problems in their lives to be caused by external agents. They will believe they cannot get a job because the Illuminati have spotted their paranoid CT ramblings in an email, although the real reason is probably their hair dyed bright orange.
2. 99.999% gonna happen, and basically nothing ever predicted by CTs has come true. A brilliant case in point, and the inspiration for this rant, is a post by Booth Gunter at HateWatch. He details the top conspiracy fears regarding the re-election of Obama. Anything from full dictatorship to removal of gun ownership rights, or even outright civil war. The obviously problem with these ideas is that in his four years of power to date Obama has done nothing of the sort. Which leads us to:
3. What is taking them so long? According to many theorists, the evil plans of the NWO / Illuminati go back a century or more. The idea of depopulation goes back decades. So why haven’t they done anything evil yet?
4. Lack of whistle blowers. Real conspiracies, if they are widespread enough, get whistle blowers. It happened to Big Tobacco. It happened recently to News Corp in the U.K. If enough people know about something morally wrong, someone will have the guts to come out and spill the beans. And yet all the main conspiracies lack a single whistle blower. Although I am a believer in 9/11 being not as we are told, I cannot understand why a single legit whistle blower has not emerged. There would surely have been hundreds of people in the loop to some degree.
5. Unsound motivations. Political and economic scholars will tell you that prosperous countries crave a larger population, because the power of those in charge will increase. Yet we are told of plans to depopulate the planet. FEMA is tasked with cleaning up after a disaster – yet modest emergency accommodation is described as concentration camps. On the other hand, the fake Moon landing had a very sound financial and political motivation. That probably explains how a movie about it got made – because it was believable!
6. No true evidence. Just like UFOs, it all makes sense in a roundabout way, but there’s not an instance of genuine, unambiguous evidence.
I look onto this blog a lot and there always seems to be very interesting articles. But, im sorry this one just blows my mind, you want to belive in Pole shifts, Dark Comets, Extinction caused by solar Flares, Mayan prophecy, Preping?… for the end of the world, but you cant be open that there may be powers to be that are behind most of the “Evil” things that go on on this prison planet??? You also state that NOTHING a CT has predicted ever came true? Check your references and look into it a bit deeper, you may be surprised….
Also in the past months ive realized all this website does is spread a bunch of gloom and doom fear porn. Have fun freaking ppl out with 2012 man, have fun in your bunker, what ever happens you wont be safe in a bunker or undergound lmao. good luck though 😉
So, an example of a conspiracy theory proving true would be good! I don’t mean conspiracies that came to light (like the Iran-Contra Affair), I mean theories that the general public wouldn’t think were likely, but then were proven and became established fact.
1 – The group of “conspiracy theorists” is more diverse than you think , a generalization is misplaced here imo. In any case, you won’t have to travel far on the conspiracy highway to find a counter example: David Icke. A LOT of people agree with some of his stuff but not “that other material”.
2 – Try “Salimi slicing”….[hope thats right]. Some measures (i.e. laws) are put into place just waiting for the right occassion. And this is often done in small steps, so as to make them seem more necassary, less “dangerous” etc. + small changes don’t get noticed as much as big ones 😉
3 – Since no one can KNOW what kind of conspiracy (if any) is going on, no one could KNOW the motive an or the methods used to carry it out. Maybe someone is just waiting for the right moment to occur…
4&5 see: Psychopaths
6 – I can’t imaginge what genuine evidence would look like; considering the possibility of forging it on the one hand, and the problems of authentification on the other.
anyway
personally i believe genuine information can come from any source; the term “conspiracy theorist” means a different thing for many people; we CAN’T EVER KNOW FOR SURE but it’s fun to try.
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visititng your blog for years now. you’re doing a good job, thanks