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Thursday, July 10, 2008

State of the World Address: The Misleading and the Misled

The people...

The people are being exploited...

The average person, you and I basically, is rather uneducated regarding political affairs. You can't quite blame yourself for this lack of necessary knowledge, so that should provide some comfort. But, unfortunately, there is a market for the average person with this unjust lack of political knowledge; Conspiracy Theory.

Who are the people running this market? I can name a few names, like David Icke, Alex Jones, the Zeitgeist film producers, 9/11 "Truthers", just to name a few. Sensationalists is all they are, but some are ridiculous crackpots artists, con artists, liars, insane, patronizing...you know the drill. They all have one thing in common; they're scam artists. The Conspiracy Theory movement is a big hoax. It's the reason why no one takes them seriously.

I'm not to say that I'm one of the people these idiots would call "ignorant", I realize that you can't automatically, by default, place all your trust in your government; you have to be aware of their motives and actions. You need to know the hows, whys, whens, and whats to everything they do (well, not necessarily everything, that is unless you're a masochist obsessive paranoid delusional [heh, that's a lot of words meaning one thing]). However, I'm calling them out on trying to exploit my, I admit, relative lack of political knowledge, and I speak the same for others who sadly fall for their bullshit. They make money off of this ignorance, which isn't to say I am patronizing my fellow man and woman, and it needs to stop. It's a crime is what it is, and one day, it will be illegal.

Alex Jones is one of the most outspoken of these Conspiracy Theorist con artists, delving into such subjects as 9/11, the Zionist movement (which he equates to nearly all of the conspiracies he allegedly believes are true), the UN, the EU, RFID chips, Verichips, the Bilderberg group, Planned Parenthood, Eugenics, and so on. I've watched an entire film from this very man, focused, almost entirely, on the EU (and the alleged North American Union and Asian Union, which isn't a big deal) and the Bilderberg group. However, whether deliberately or not, he displayed his lack of consistency by delving into topics he thinks are linked to the EU. If you are sorrily convinced by his scare tactics, such as dreadful background music, ambient audio clips of people screaming, lots of cynical behavior from interviewees and groups of people on-screen, and completely paranoid delusions, then I am sorry but it'll take some effort to pull you back.

This film is called 'ENDGAME'. Scared enough? Almost two whole fucking hours of drivel, and fear mongering, and paranoid delusion (and sometimes schizophrenia, as one interviewee being shown during the Bilderberg protest segment seems to be an almost pathological liar, which is a symptom of schizophrenia and psychopathy) but no actual points are made. You also have to realize a piece of truthful thinking with regards to the conspiracy theorist movement; if what Alex Jones and his ilk, and all other conspiracy theorists, were telling their audience were true, then why aren't they gone (dead or disappeared)? Last I saw, which was 6 days ago, Alex Jones was alive and well and stupidly enough, was working on another film. So is David Icke, so are the producers of the massively popular film 'Zeitgeist', as painful it is to realize the testament of the aforementioned film's popularity, the time-wasting Bilderberg group protesters, and pretty much all other conspiracy theorists.

And not to mention, these aren't even scientific theories. They're completely layman theories. Remember, the scientific theory and the layman theory are pretty much opposites, noticeably at least because of my own witnessing of the average person's ignorance to their meanings. No one but the gullible man and woman takes them seriously. But you can't blame the gullible man and woman; they haven't been educated on the matter, and these guys manage to convince them with their paranoid delusions of grandeur and persuade them to accept these delusions as fact. It's a market. Books and media have made money, all made by the conspiracy theorist group. One needs to wonder, and let's keep the emboldened statement in mind, whether or not this conspiracy theory market is ultimately controlled by the Big Media? Is this just another conspiracy theory? You be the judge. I'm not asserting this question like the conspiracy theorists do, I'm merely pondering. Since those tin-foilers are alive and well, you'd got to wonder what the real deal is.

What I want to do with this part of this article is persuade people to make up their own minds. The Conspiracy Theorists, as far as I can tell, are at least just one side of the fucking coin. If you go with them simply because they have an almost admirable level of charisma and persuasion power, you're just sticking with one side of the coin. If you go with the opposite, it's the same deal. Instead, with the power of our minds to reason (even though we are irrational creatures, which is where this conspiracy theory delusional thinking comes in) and question with free will, we can make up our own damn decisions. Wake up people; the Zeitgeist film is just another attempt at grabbing an audience. They know damn well that what they're presenting is full of shit, I am firm on that belief, but since it has worked in convincing people otherwise, they'll stick with selling the product.

Make your own damn decisions. Look at the pros and cons of each argument. So far, in with both sides, I've seen fewer pros and more cons. But,What about you?