A curious trait I've observed among this contemporary strain of conspiracy theorist is the invulnerability of his spirit to disappointment, that his philosophical momentum is barely affected by being continually kicked in the balls by reality.
Most recently, this manifested quite obviously surrounding the election. It seemed as though every day something new and earth-shattering was promised by the usual cast of con artists like Lin Wood or Ron Watkins. Something was about to be revealed that would end Biden's campaign or change the results of the election or restore power back to Trump or restore power back to the military, et cetera. And when every promise predictably amounted to nothing, this didn't remotely shake the devout beliefs of the conspiracy theorist. Why? Because his beliefs aren't based in any kind of material reality. It's faith and nothing more.
It reminds me of some things that Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in "Reflections on the Jewish Question" which I'll paraphrase here:
It is a way of feeling good, proud even, rather than guilty at the abandonment of responsibility and the flight before the impossibility of true sincerity. He abandons himself to the crowd and his bad faith, he "flees responsibility as he flees his own consciousness, and choosing for his personality the permanence of the rock, he chooses for his morality the scale of petrified values."
He pulls down shutters, blinds, mirrors and mirages over his consciousness to keep himself in his bad faith away from his responsibilities and his liberty. He is afraid "of himself, of his own consciousness, of his own liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and the world...
He is a coward who does not want to admit his cowardice to himself.
So I ask you, somewhat sincerely, what keeps you going when every single earth-shattering prospect (always just around the corner) amounts to jack shit?
Most of us do not invest in the sort of Q type conspiracies to which you refer. See greatawaking.win if you want that sort of religious fervor and blind abandonment of reason. To me so called "conspiracies" are simply exercises in free thought. Striving for hypothesis to give meaning and structure to the world. Some of us are not comfortable just accepting prevailing wisdom. There is plenty of historical precedent for gaps between what authorities propose and the truth. Questioning the status quo is extremely healthy for stimulating constructive debate and smashing the walls of our echo chambers.
Are our hypothesis and theories always correct? No. But neither are the establishments various schemas. And most of the people here are more capable of contemplating multiple perspectives than most. It not as if we give full stock to every "conspiracy". Who is to really say that what you believe is not just a "conspiracy theory". Live a little. Lighten up.
No doubt. I'll also admit I made a mistake in the way that I phrased my post in that I don't believe there is a monolithic definition of a conspiracy theorist, I'm speaking more to the people who post blatant disinformation and never take any responsibility for it.
This is something I disagree with, however. I don't believe most people here care about the pursuit of truth, I think they simply want their biases, prejudices and suspicions confirmed. No one is here to have their mind changed and the perspectives are just as rigid as they are in the comments section on some CNN or MSNBC article.
I agree with you on point number one. Especially when it pertains to important contemporaneous political information. Tick tock can be very damaging, especially when it is meddles in organic social movements.
I think that most people in general don't care for the pursuit of truth, as long as they are comfortable. Only a small percentage can or will contemplate outside of their predominant conditioning. That is true here as well. But it is not unique to this space. It is fully innate in humanity.
I had a guy in a bar once tell me that that Russia is 100% in Europe and there's no part of it in the Asian continent. I took out my phone to show him, because you know, it's pretty common knowledge it has a large land mass above China and is right across from Alaska, and the guy told me he would punch me in the face if I showed him a map.
Ignorance can be bliss I guess, I'd rather be proven wrong and learn something.
Agreed. Thanks for your replies.
There is no such thing as the deep state. There's only the state, which is malicious enough without having to assign it fairy tale villainy.
Very good, moron. The CIA is an apparatus of the state. You're almost there.
lol, you must be new to conspiracy theories. Let me guess, your journey began with the big bad orange man?
You're not nearly intelligent enough to convincingly pull off the condescension routine, sorry.
Sorry, but it sounds like you are projecting. Try me ;)
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I mean, the head mod here has a direct line to Lin Wood it seems, and posts literally every single piece of right wing news on the election, no matter how unverified, shady or lacking evidence.
So one has to wonder if said people are ignorant and easily fooled, just plain wrong, or something more malicious indeed.
I'm allowed to talk about conspiracies that I also think are bullshit. If your conspiracy can't hold up to any sort of scrutiny, it's garbage.
The intelligence apparatus publishes reports proposing alternative futures where elites can step in and bid on or fund them to make one of those alternative futures become the next reality. Philanthropy is how they hide the financing.
So they can propose a future like "humans will be stamped with a bar code and tracked" or "there will be disaster after disaster with much public unrest". These are scenarios for the simulation.
Then their financers (philanthropists) like Bill Gates will try to carry it out as far as possible, and when there is pushback by the public and they cannot go full Satan-IBM-Holocaust on it, they fire up a mainstream media hit piece where they laugh about how "the stupid conspiracy theorists actually thought we would do that".
Make no mistake, they are TRYING very hard to do it all and seeing what they can get away with.
We are being pre-cogged in multiple ways. They are futurists playing tricks on us. Casting illusions, seeing what sticks. Plato's cave.
Hardly any pleb knows the big picture of it all.
https://www.amazon.com/Basilisk-Conspiracy-futuristic-fiction/dp/1522887571
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=NVlhBS8VrbY
Democracy is an illusion. You don't really have a say in anything. And now they just want us to shut up. Censor our public forums, sell our election to the highest bidders, take away banking, the list goes on and on. You won't own anything and you'll be happy, global citizen. Together alone.
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being wrong
There's no right or wrong within reality; only ONEs free will of choice of adherence or ignorance thereof.
what keeps you going
Energy in motion aka ALL inspiring each ONE within to adhere to self sustenance.
Save this relativism routine for someone who cares, autist.
relativism
Reality represents ALL that is. Correct? Then why is it that all -isms are based on ONE within ALL reality consenting to another ONE within ALL reality, offering the -isms?
Is there anything in ALL of reality; offered not by another ONE, that requires the act of consent by believing it?
autism
"difficulties with social communication and interaction"...so everyone who uses digital means of communication is autistic, because reality based communication requires interaction of senses, while this digital fiction (utilized by the military industrial complex for mass population control) uses the deceptions of "social" media, avatars, emoticons, and voting to mimic real communication?
Now notice that autism is also an -ism offered by another (((one))), and not by the nature of ALL. Coincidence? Why do you believe in autism, and who offered it to you?
God, I truly don't care. You take the cake on this forum for writing the most self-indulgent drivel, an incredibly roundabout way of saying absolutely nothing. Thankfully you still managed to slip in some blame on the Jews, so you fit right in.
God, I truly don't care.
I'm not your authority; you made the free will of choice to care; to respond. That free will represents your sole authority over self. Btw how about growing your crescendo by caring a little more about what should inspire you to build your comprehension?
writing the most self-indulgent drivel
I'm ONE within ALL, how much more selfless could I be?
saying absolutely nothing.
Within ALL of existence...what could tempt ONE to believe in "nothing"? Could it be ignorance?
Thankfully...to slip in some blame on the so called jews, so you fit right in.
Adhering to party-line, while consenting to false authority...I rather stick to my free will of choice in calling out whatever inspires me to do so. Did you knew that the selfish use blame to shirk responsibility over guilt for ignoring responsibility over self?
Like I said, I don't care. You accomplish nothing with this drivel except self-satisfaction. There's no enlightenment here, just autistic self-indulgence.
You accomplish nothing
How can ONE act within ALL without there being consequences?
There's no enlightenment here
That's because illumination represents emitting outwards; ONE emitting the flow of information ALL offers through ONEself back into ALL. You seek information from others; but you need inspiration to build your own comprehension.
The ones who offer you the lie; also offer you the truth; both are not natural states, because nature represents constant change (motion).
self-indulgence
INDUL'GENCY, noun - "free permission to the appetites". It is the pull of motion that represents all temptation, so life itself is the "permission" (function actually) to participate in temptation (as well as inspiration).
Does this schtick work on anyone? I assume you autistically spam this garbage all over the internet.
Hey u/axolotl_peyotl, I thought you were a proponent of free speech? Back to your same reddit bullshit, huh?
That's about the level of insight I was expecting. Good boy!