Conspiracies

The Dump Goddess brought forth a book by Joel Levy titled Conspiracies. Who could resist? Of course, it is not really about conspiracies. As the subtitle explains: 50 of the world’s most infamous theories and what the evidence reveals. True, tantalizing titbits of forbidden knowledge are revealed in the text, however only as a foil for eminent debunkage. Conspiracies is a compendium of limited hang-out: allowing there is some “controversy” while debunking evidence of conspiracy. The slender volume published by Elwin Street lists theories by category – health, politics, terror, sci-fi - assigning each a paranoia percentile ranging from 0% for HIV/AIDS, chemtrails, and the Illuminati, to 99% for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Most fall somewhere below 50% so minions of corporate/government can feel in plentiful company, and skeptics may claim some vindication. With a distinct Zionist neo-liberal aftertaste, the 50 chapters lay to rest definitively suspicions of black ops behind deep events. By parsing events into separate theories about individual conspiracies, then proffering plausible explanations for puzzling evidence as “settled science”, Levy traduces perception of the dark state’s bloody hand as unfounded paranoid nonsense. After all, the world’s most powerful people hardly even know each other, and those who do are not on speaking terms. Conspiracies leaves unsaid the strange way conspiracy theories eventually become substantiated with true testimony and factual evidence. Unfortunately its publication date of 2005 precludes any discussion of pandemic.

One conspiracy theory left unchallenged by Conspiracies is the CONspiracy. The CON – Conspiracy Of Normalism - is to conspiracies as the Universe is to stars: infinite, all-encompassing, eternal. The concept that a clandestine cadre of career criminals commits ALL disasters and attacks is anathema to conspiracy debunkers because “too many people would have to be involved” for it to be kept hidden. Yet that is the very nature of the CON – precisely because it seems impossible so many people could be CONned. In fact, EVERYbody is part of the CONspiracy and being part of it makes it unbecredible to them all. Humans will believe anything -- as long as everybody else does.

Reverend Doktor C. Sarian

Mid Coast Sub Church of Paranioa

Church of the SubGenius

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