The c/Conspiracies community seems to be in gradual decline over the years.
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It's hard to believe that anyone could get involved in conspiracy theory to any extent and then give it up, but there you have it.
My only theory is that fear finally takes over: they get exposed to so much material that generates fear and which their subconscious judges to be potentially true that, in order to relieve that anxiety, they find a reason to quit.
We all battle against that same phenomenon. Pretty much nothing in the study of conspiracy reveals good news. It is only the love of truth in a higher consciousness that can overcome it.
That and also once you know about it all you find it difficult to do something meaningful. Many regress into the pursuit of shekels for the lack of better alternative.
Maybe, but I know that for me it's become very much the opposite.
I mean, I recently stumbled onto this guy William H. Parker, who made the LAPD the military occupation force it is today. I just knew he had to be connected to the Parker family of generational Satanists scattered all throughout American history. I spent like an hour and a half finding that connection, and felt an acute compulsion the entire time not to stop until I did. I haven't got around to writing it up because I knew very well all along that only about six people will read it and care. I had to find out for myself.
OTOH, on the rare occasion I try to spend a little time researching an investment, after about 5 minutes I'll be like, "Good God, release me from this torture! How can this be worse than high school?"
yeah the things you do for love like investigating and finding out the amazing and corruption of the world....
... vs the things that we force ourselves to do for some sort of abstract idea of betterment. even the fact that it is " the right thing to do" makes it awful.
responsibility versus contumacity - I know which one I will choose.
That hits on something that has become so clear to me lately as a fundamental mechanism of control.
Almost all of us define ourselves as a collection of attributes: Democrat, firefighter, consumer, American, Red Sox fan, Person of Color, whatever. We wear these "identifications" like little merit badges on a sash that we use to signal others. And there's no doubt we think of these as "merit" badges, because no one "shamefully confesses" they're really a minarchist.
"They" know this and the mechanism of control is attaching tiny little strings to these badges to pull us around. That is, They simply declare that as a "good" fill-in-the-blank, you "should" do-thus-and-so. If you don't or you disagree, you're bad and should ashamed of yourself. They magically bridge the is-ought distinction and no one ever seems to see any of this happening.
Every once in a while we see someone removing one of these merit badges and freeing themselves. The one we see frequently now is when a black person declares they're a Trump supporter. They're accused of being a race traitor, of course, but without that merit badge and that tiny string, that person's attitude becomes, "I couldn't give a fuck what you think."