My wife occasionally gets exasperated and asks me how I can get so much entertainment from, say, ANCIENT ALIENS, and I try to explain how I watch such things on a meta-level. Also, I get a big kick out of Giorgio and his hair, of course, but no one’s immune to that…
What I’m saying is, they’re prattling the natter in order to keep a place open in their minds, and lives, for fact when it appears. No one is better at uncovering things than those who cast a wide net rather than getting all debunky and fearful and disapproving. Limiting one’s self is the death blow to being informed. Ask any FOX viewer. Instead, embrace the whole, even the nonsense.
Be like Charles Fort and use it as a wonderful all-encompassing filter.
Oh, and it’s arrogant to dare call bullshit when you yourself cannot substantiate your call. Just saying. That is the prime idiocy of the skeptibunkers. Just because Penn & Teller CAN seem to reproduce results using illusion does NOT mean the original observation was an illusion. That is false logic.
As Umberto Eco so charmingly demonstrated in Foucault’s Pendulum, the key aspect of elaborate conspiracy is that you cannot disprove it, ever. Can’t prove a negative, is why. You can’t prove an invisible dragon is NOT sitting on your head if I say one is.
It’s like the Big Lie Hitler used: Surely they wouldn’t lie about THAT. (Oh yes they would, and do.)
And yes, conspiracy is real, and yes, the theories are elaborated into crazy curlicues by cynical manipulators in order to obfuscate evidence of their crimes, sure, it’s called PsyOps, or disinformation. You fake people out, gull them into believing nonsense, and otherwise keep them so befogged and mired in doubt and uncertainty they do not know what to think, or how to figure it out. That’s how you do it.
So you embrace the crazy, systematically analyze it, and it will begin to reveal the shape at least that is creating it, and hint at reasons why, which, after all, aren’t too difficult to guess.
It’s like dealing with people: Always ask, “Why is he telling me this?” and “What mental state or world view is he trying to lull me into accepting without question so his answers will seem valid?”
Propaganda, deception, and manipulation are corporate’s best bet to win any future war. They’re waging information war right now, and if they keep us ignorant, uninformed, boxed, or channeled, they need never worry about a popular uprising, dissent, or even boycotts. As Orwell wrote about, those who control the language and the terms of discussion control it all.
Question everything, even this. Questions, not answers, are your salvation from being duped.
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