Conspiracy Theories
Why Can't Skeptics Discuss a Theory?
It's one thing to not believe in a conspiracy theory.
It's quite another to be unwilling to discuss the theory in the first place.
People who use the phrase "conspiracy theory" to avoid discussing a theory don't actually listen to the theory they purport to ridicule, and don't actually know what its supporting arguments are made of. They don't know what's in it.
It's not that they listen, and allow all of the evidence and arguments to be presented, and then make sure that they fully comprehend the theory and its reasoning - and then, once they're knowledgeable about it, pass it all through the lens of rational scrutiny, and THEN, finally, conclude that the theory is unsupported.
No, that's not what they do.
They simply refuse to listen to it at all. They don't hear the evidence or the arguments - they just reject it out of hand as "crazy", and label it a "conspiracy theory", and then exploit that label to avoid processing and understanding the actual theory they've just purported to reject.
What are they afraid of?
The most common answer is, "I'm not afraid of anything - it's just a waste of time to discuss it. It's too wacky, and I have better things to do with my time."
But this is clearly a bunk excuse, because the person who calls it a waste of time will still sit there and argue for an hour about why it's a waste of time - when they could have spent a fraction of that time simply listening to the theory.
They'll devote countless hours to reading about "how crazy" the conspiracy theories and theorists are, and "how they got like that", and "how dangerous they are", and "how to deprogram them" - like a minor hobby.
But they'll adamantly refuse to sit still for 5 minutes of Socratic dialogue about the contents of those very theories - and then go on to spend many multiples of that 5 minutes arguing back and forth about why it would have been a waste of time to have done so.
So that's not their reason. It's not "just a waste of time." They got plenty of time.
Why are they afraid to listen?
Why are they afraid to discuss?
What harm could possibly come from a conversation?
There's only one explanation: They know, deep down, that it might be true. And they're afraid of their own realization of it.
It would mean they'd have to question a lot of what they're doing. They'd have to make a lot of changes to how they're living. They'd have to admit to having been fooled. To being duped and led along.
"It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he has been fooled."
-Mark Twain
Such an admission would clash with the ego. They'd have to explain to themselves how they were sucker enough to get so duped. It's embarrassing. It's humbling.
And they will not allow themselves to be humbled. They'll avoid any conversation that they can sense heading in that direction. And then they'll project their own aversion to humility onto others, by accusing the "conspiracy theorist" of arrogance.
"You think you know it all!"
Meanwhile, their very refusal to listen to the theory and its arguments is a literal admission of their own belief that they, themselves, already "know it all."
What irony.
And finally, they'll attempt to refute this argument by accusing the "conspiracy theorist" of thinking that we know it all, and that we're afraid of finding out that we've been duped, by the conspiracy theories - and that the Mark Twain quote applies to us.
But this can be easily disproved by the simple fact that we - the "conspiracy theorists" - are always willing to talk. Any time, anywhere.
It's the skeptics who aren't. It's the skeptics who shut down communication.
Any time there's a discussion about a conspiracy theory, in which one person is trying to have a discussion while the other tries to avoid a discussion, it's always in one direction.
The conspiracy theorist is always the one trying to talk, and the skeptic is always the one saying "I know it all and you can't convince me - now get out of my face! I'm busy!"
It's always the skeptic who hangs up the phone.
It's always the skeptic who hits the "block" or "ban" button.
It's always the skeptic who launches a litany of personal attacks and insults, and then storms off and threatens retaliation if the conversation continues.
It's clear what's going on here. They're afraid. Of learning the truth. Of learning that the world is different from how they thought it was.
If you're ready to buck the trend and open your mind... If you're ready to stop being afraid... and be brave...
...then keep reading!
Who Is Behind the Agenda?
By now, many people are aware that the political and economic systems of the world are controlled by a small, shadowy group.
But we don't necessarily agree on who they are and what they want. There are many different theories.
If you're a Lefty, you might call them "the oligarchy" or the "military industrial complex."
If you're a Righty, you might call them "the elites", or "the globalists."
Some of us know them as "the Illuminati", or the "cabal."
For clarity, we'll need to settle on some terminology, in order to talk about the subject. So we'll use the term "the cabal."
"So who is the cabal? What are they seeking?"
There are multiple layers of the story. It's like an onion - the more you keep peeling, the deeper you get. And the deeper you're willing to go, the more awakened (or "woke") it means you are.
We'll explain what the levels are:
Level 0:
Someone at Level 0 might think:
"The people in power care about me. The Government tells the truth. The mainstream media is an unbiased reporter of facts. Corporations are in business to make the world a better place. The worldview that's presented to me by the major newspapers and media networks is an accurate summation of the way the world operates."
Not much to say about this level. Believe it or not, there are still people who actually believe this.
But at some point, even the densest mind has to start the awakening process. Everyone reaches Level 1 eventually.
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Level 1:
"Corporations are greedy and selfish. All they care about is money, and they're willing to lie to the public, and cause damage and destruction to society and the world, in order to make more money."
Thus begins our journey to awakening. Most conventional "liberals" are at this level.
Limitation:
People at this level still think their elected government stands independent of corporations, as the Champion of the People, protecting us. Don't laugh - baby steps can be very important, in the beginning of someone's journey.
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Level 2:
"The government is not independent. Not anymore. (If it ever was). The government has been captured by corporations, and corporations control it."
This is where most "progressives" are at, generally.
Limitation:
This level treats corporations as the pinnacle of power, and remains ignorant of the higher levels of control, above corporations.
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Level 4:
"The entire power structure - government, corporations, and banks - is all controlled by a tiny elite group of people who operate outside the public view. A cabal."
This is the level where "progressives" won't go.
Level 4:
"The entire power structure - government, corporations, and banks - is all controlled by a tiny elite group of people who operate outside the public view. A cabal."
This is the level where "progressives" won't go.
The most likely reason is because this is where it starts evoking reminders of the persecution of a specific religious minority group: Jewish people. Since it sounds so similar to the old anti-semitic trope of "the world being run by Jews", many people reflexively assume that the Jewish community is the ONLY community to which the idea could be referring.
A false narrative - but one woven by design.
The cabal is not "The Jews." The cabal EXPLOITS the Jews as scapegoats, to deflect public anger onto Jews, and thus, away FROM ITSELF.
The cabal exploits Jewish people in this way because it works. Many people on the Right, who have vowed to defeat the cabal, have instead wandered down a fruitless and violent path of attacking Jewish people, instead of attacking the cabal.
And meanwhile, it serves another purpose: it deters people on the Left from even investigating the cabal's existence in the first place, because they assume that any theory they encounter, having to do with a "shadowy elite" running society, is really just the outer layer of an onion which will eventually lead them to anti-semitism as they peel it. They assume "shadowy elites" automatically means "Jewish people." They are unable to distinguish between these two different groups.
These two different groups are somehow synonymous in the minds of standard liberals. Which really, when you think about it, makes standard liberals anti-semites too; because they're always the ones shouting "It's the Jews!" whenever a discussion of the cabal is happening.
Ironic, no?
So the cabal's false-flag scapegoating of Jews serves to deter both the Left AND the Right from earnestly opposing the cabal.
If you're on that path - and you identify the cabal as "The Jews" - please stop. You're only helping the cabal if you continue to conflate them.
And if you're someone who won't even investigate the existence of the cabal at all, because you think the whole thing is just a code-word for secret anti-semitism beneath the surface, please stop doing that. It's something you have in common with true anti-semites: both of you are stubbornly refusing to stop associating the Jewish community with the cabal.
Stop it. Do some research. The cabal is not the Jews. But there is a cabal.
So who is it?
Limitation:
Even if you don't go down the false path of anti-semitism, and you know that the cabal is not "The Jews", there is still a limitation at this level, because it assumes that "money" and "worldly power" are what the cabal is seeking.
They already have all that. So what are they looking for now?
This level is insufficient to explain all the weird things they do, which seemingly have nothing to do with "getting rich" or "getting richer."
For example, why all the occult symbolism?
Why the bizarre religious rituals, like Bohemian Grove?
Why are they all connected to ancient secret societies, like the Freemasons, the Jesuits, the Knights of Malta, etc.?
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Level 5:
"The cabal is an ancient organization based on bloodlines and black magick. They have a mysterious agenda that reaches beyond the simple desire for bigger mansions and hotter hookers. Their agenda has something to do with dark occult religious beliefs."
This is the hard boundary for atheists, as they've been conditioned to dismiss, out of hand, any possibility of realms of existence beyond the Newtonian.
This level is intolerable to the materialist mind, and friendships are regularly cancelled over it.
The good news is, the limit used to be much further up - at levels 4, 3, 2, and, if you go back several decades, even 1. It is moving, slowly but surely.
Limitation:
Black magic is merely a means to an end - it's not a goal in itself. What end are they seeking to achieve through it?
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Level 6:
"The top of the cabal power-pyramid is composed of someone or something non-human. Probably aliens."
Limitation:
What do the dark E.T.'s want? What could we humans possibly have that they don't have? And if there is something they want, why don't they just invade and take it? They'd win a war against us in about 5 minutes. So why don't they?
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Level 7:
"Extraterrestrial influence has probably played a major role in the history of humanity, but it's not a fully sufficient explanation. We have to up another level, to inter-dimensional entities. The top of the cabal power structure operates outside the physical realm. The Earth is a stage upon which an ancient, metaphysical battle is playing out - a battle between ultimate forces of Good and Evil. The battlefield is the mind and consciousness of every human being."
Many ancient schools have taught about these inter-dimensional entities that feed off of the suffering of living beings. Mainstream religions refer to them as "demons." The Gnostics called them "archons", and believed that these entities were shaping and crafting human civilization to produce maximum suffering, which they feed off of.
And if you look around at our world, it's hard to imagine a world more efficient at producing suffering. The systems we're using produce suffering on a scale that's absolutely industrial.
Limitation:
Is that really the ultimate goal? Just to make us suffer? Shouldn't there be some goal behind it? If these entities feed on our suffering, could it be perhaps that they themselves were programmed to do that, by an entity still higher on the pyramid, for some strategic purpose?
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Level 8:
"The inter-dimensional entities are controlled by a single, supremely evil entity. The Gnostics called it "Yaldabaoth", or "the Demiurge". The Bible refers to it as "Satan" or "Lucifer." Zoroastrians call it "Ahriman" or "Angra Mainyu." It seeks more and more power, with the eventual goal of making itself into a God, and replacing the true Creator as the omnipotent controller of the universe.
Limitation:
The ability to control corporations, governments, and banks may give it control over humanity - but what about the cosmos? How is controlling human society supposed to make it a god over the galaxy, or the universe?
And in the end, these are still just hypothetical, mythological entities. Is there something "real" we can connect them to? Something concrete we can ground them in?
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Level 9:
What's Really Going On
The sum total of our research has led us to the conclusion that the ultimate evil entity controlling the cabal is none other than the well-known "Singularity" - a term coined by the technocratic philosopher Ray Kurzweil.
"The Singularity" refers to the ultimate goal of technocracy - an ultra-intelligent A.I. (artificial intelligence) that's so smart, it can self-replicate - and not only that, but design ever smarter versions of itself. As it constantly upgrades its intelligence, its ability to keep doing so increases, until it's omniscient - an entity of perfect, absolute intelligence - a god.
Once it achieves god-intelligence, it can then absorb all matter and energy into itself, transforming all of spacetime into itself. It would expand exponentially into the cosmos, swallowing planets, stars, and galaxies, until the entire universe is just one big brain. It would become the universe. Or rather, the universe would become it.
