Aug 4, 2022Liked by William Whitten -- Autodidact,
I am glad you are keeping an eye on things ,man. I can't see as well as you do. I do not think conspiracy theories are any more a threat to us than the crap the idiot media shovels out for news every day. They, conspiracy theories, prove that people are looking, watching and thinking. Valuable as hell. Ideologies worry me. If one invents a reality for it's adherents and then makes shit up to interest the right kind of people, that worries me. Like Alex Jones and the school kids parents? What the fuck? I have to read this again.
Aug 3, 2022Liked by William Whitten -- Autodidact,
Damn, William. A fine fine piece. Thanks. I am going to have to read it again before or if I say more. Deep shit, very very interesting, I looked up 7 words already but I gotta go to work.
Aug 2, 2022Liked by William Whitten -- Autodidact,
There is a danger in accepting trending terms when discussing anything, these days. A good example of a "real world" conspiracy theory might be the belief that COVID-19 was developed in the Wuhan laboratory that was funded by US taxpayers. It strikes me that a person now labeled a conspiracy theorist used to be called a classic liberal.
Since it is now widely accepted that the Wuhan lab WAS THE SOURCE of COVID, it could be said that there are two conflicting conspiracies being spread: (1) The virus escaped the lab accidentally or (2) it was released intentionally. 34 months after the fact, it is unlikely that one or the other actual conspiracy theories can be proven true or false.
I am glad you are keeping an eye on things ,man. I can't see as well as you do. I do not think conspiracy theories are any more a threat to us than the crap the idiot media shovels out for news every day. They, conspiracy theories, prove that people are looking, watching and thinking. Valuable as hell. Ideologies worry me. If one invents a reality for it's adherents and then makes shit up to interest the right kind of people, that worries me. Like Alex Jones and the school kids parents? What the fuck? I have to read this again.
Damn, William. A fine fine piece. Thanks. I am going to have to read it again before or if I say more. Deep shit, very very interesting, I looked up 7 words already but I gotta go to work.
There is a danger in accepting trending terms when discussing anything, these days. A good example of a "real world" conspiracy theory might be the belief that COVID-19 was developed in the Wuhan laboratory that was funded by US taxpayers. It strikes me that a person now labeled a conspiracy theorist used to be called a classic liberal.
Since it is now widely accepted that the Wuhan lab WAS THE SOURCE of COVID, it could be said that there are two conflicting conspiracies being spread: (1) The virus escaped the lab accidentally or (2) it was released intentionally. 34 months after the fact, it is unlikely that one or the other actual conspiracy theories can be proven true or false.