Any worldview outside the mainstream has a pressing need to justify its alternativeness. Creationists, alternative medicine proponents, adherents of plasma cosmology, radical catastrophists – they all have to come up with an answer to the question, “why isn’t our belief system accepted in the mainstream?” Generally, there are three paths you can take in this situation: you can say that your view is quite new and hasn’t had a chance to gain any adherents yet, you can posit a conspiracy by the Powers That Be to keep everyone in the dark, or you can explain it by invoking collective blindness.
It’s a familiar story – there’s a cure out there for cancer, but the medical establishment is blind to it because it goes against the Western scientific worldview. The evidence for creationism is overwhelming, but the biologists just can’t see it – they’ve been blinkered by an atheistic, materialistic upbringing and are simply incapable of being convinced otherwise. Einstein was wrong and relativity theory is bunk, but the physics community is locked into a pattern of thinking that keeps them from realizing the truth. It should be utterly obvious that whites are the master race, but everyone’s too brainwashed by multiculturalism to notice.
Our first course is a tossed word salad, courtesy of soon-to-be-former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin:
The main course:
To drink, a tall frosty glass of Republican tears:
Sarah AMERICA needs you more than ever…. someone is behind this pulling the string you have to cut the strings Sarah
I am crying for my nation WE NEED YOU
Roast crow in a self-pity reduction
She’s not quitting because she’s running for president. She’s quitting because she’s quitting. They won.
Armed insurrection souffle
I honestly don’t think Republicans will win when they steal elections like they did when I was in Seattle from Rossi in the Gubernatorial election and the SAME PEOPLE in Minnesota stealing the election for Franken.
It’s not ballot boxes anymore-—it’s cartridge boxes. I’ve debated with anarcho-capitalists, social conservatives, monarchists, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, Scoop Jackson Democrats, Burkeans, etc-—there’s just not this diversity on the other side and if we have to debate each other later, so be it. But there is no chance for an honest resolution of this conflict in the booths.
Everything about politics is about media manipulation, public relations, manufactured ‘events,’ manufactured stories, press assassination of high profile enemies and K-12 and colleges and entertainment stuffed to the gills with enemies of liberty who believe in rule by an elite who believes they are entitled not only to rule but desire a malleable and submissive citizenry on which to experiment with their philosophical delusions that Bastiat already demolished a century plus ago.
The GOP isn’t that much better anymore but it’s the only home in the two parties for anyone who’s decent who is anti-statist. But the game is over. Democrats may lose in 2010, 2012 but does anyone think the GOP will win filibuster-proof majority in the Senate ANd the Presidency AND get a President who won’t mouth that nonsense about “compassion” instead of FREEDOM?!
No, the game is over. We have 2-3 urban areas dominating entire huge states that are red and a few dozen urban areas dominating the entire countries fate. It’s European Union Redux. And though they’re starting to lean back towards the right there, we know their ‘right’ is totally different from our Madisonian-Burkean-Smith right and they’re eschewing classical liberals for quasi-fascists-—because legitimate debate was destroyed there as they intend to destroy it here.
We’re done for…at least electorally. A military countercoup with a Restoration Stewardship period is the best we can hope for..but good luck with that.
For dessert, Liberal-Marxist media conspiracy creme brulee with defeatist ganache
Just like Sanford, Obama and his goons got to Sarah Palin. She has some scandal she is hiding and I bet Obama and his SS told her if she resigned, they wouldn’t leak it. Why else would she not serve out her term.
We have no conservatives left. The permanent Democratic and hard left majority has been built. It’s Obama forever and a liberal House and Senate. Republicans are too scandal infested to have any chance.
Obama might as well anounce his new, permanent take over tomorrow on our nations birthday, that way the old republic can officially die on it’s 233rd birthday.
So long America.
Be sure to join us for brunch tomorrow, when we’ll be serving poached paranoia on a bed of leafy schadenfreude.
There’s no conspiracy more impressive than a grand conspiracy – the kind involving hundreds or thousands of willing participants, all working in concert toward some nefarious goal. Such a conspiracy requires perfect coordination and perfect loyalty among its members, usually enforced on pain of death or dismemberment. They project a blanket of fear over those areas which they dominate, and astound onlookers with their swift, decisive action. At the top of it all is the puppetmasters – a shadowy boardroom of white men in black suits, steepling their fingers as they ponder whom to exterminate next.
If that boardroom ever existed in any context besides moral panics and paranoid schizophrenia, it’s now dead. Obsolete. It’s a rotary telephone, a horse-drawn carriage, a copy of Windows 3.1. It’s a car whose horn is an actual horn that you have to squeeze in order to make a sort of comical AROOOGA sound. And the final blow to its plausibility was, disgustingly enough, Twitter.
Here’s an interesting example of a conspiratorial explanation for recent events. Neda, the woman whose death in the Iranian election protests was captured on YouTube, has become a potent symbol of the brutality of the crackdown. As with most such symbolic events, there’s some debate as to the reality of the situation:
In his Friday prayer sermon, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami called for the government to protest the “leaders of protests, who were supported by the United States and Israel, strongly and with cruelty so it will be a lesson for everyone.”
Khatami also said that 26-year-old protestor Neda Agha Soltan, shot last Saturday and memorialized by protestors as a martyr for their cause, was killed by those protestors.
“The proof and evidence shows that they have done it themselves and have raised propaganda against the system,” Khatami said. “I say hereby that these deceitful media have to know that the ordeal will be over and shame will remain for them.”
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“Well, if the CIA wants to kill some people and attribute that to the government elements, then choosing women is an appropriate choice, because the death of a woman draws more sympathy,” Ghadiri said.
“The Zetas say that ZetaTalk is Straight Talk.” -Nancy Leider
No, the OTHER Planet X.
One of the very first full-blown conspiracy communities I ran into on the Internet was that of the Planet X advocates, spearheaded by Nancy Lieder of ZetaTalk. Several years and countless failed prophecies later, Nancy and the Zetas are still going strong. Though the cult appears to have lost a few of its followers after a major prophecy failure in 2003, the centrepiece of their cosmology, Planet X (also known as Nibiru), has spread like wildfire across the Internet.
Nancy’s mythology fuses the catastrophism of Immanuel Velikovsky with a tortured version of the Sitchin/von Daniken school of archaeology with a dash of New Age thrown in for good measure. Despite its obvious roots in previous conspiracist/cultic subcultures, ZetaTalk has taken on a real life of its own, and a particular style that distinguishes it from its competitors. Let’s take a peek behind the curtain and see what ZetaTalk is all about.
Not every conspiracy involves the New World Order and transdimensional reptoids living in the Hollow Earth. Though the superconspiracies, as Barkun calls them, are the most vivid demonstration of the heights that the paranoid mind can reach in its quest to make sense of the world, the conspiracist mindset makes much of smaller scale, day to day events as well.
There’s a certain amount of cognitive dissonance involved in the development of any good conspiracy, which makes partisan politics a fertile breeding ground (no pun intended) for conspiracism. If someone you’ve sided with has fallen from grace somehow, it’s tempting to conclude that it can’t really be their fault – that there are other, more sinister forces at work. At the very least, everyone is guilty of something, and they’re being unfairly targeted.
All things considered, it’s no surprise that this week’s blowup over South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s extramarital affair has taken a turn for the paranoid. The more extreme elements of the American right will jump at the chance to blame just about anything on Obama. You might think that it’d be impossible to pin this piece of Patagonian polyamory on the Kenyan Usurper, but you’d be wrong!
With the recent uptick in mainstream conspiracism, my overlords in the upper echelons of the Bilderberg Group have expressed some concern that our plot to institute a New World Order will soon be discovered by the masses. Though I once held a middle-management post in the NWO’s psy-ops division, a trifling mistake on my part caused a rather sharp reduction in rank. My hopes of a comfortable retirement in a depopulated Earth shattered, I have been dispatched to this blog as a front-line psyber-ops soldier.
My mission: to combat dangerous conspiratorial thinking with the best weapons at the Illuminati’s disposal – science, skepticism, and critical thinking. I debunk without mercy, and I snark without quarter.
If I pull this off, it won’t be long before I’m back in my old position. I’ve already started thinking of new ways to pass hidden messages to paranoid schizophrenics through TV ads. Wish me luck!
My name's Mike Wood. Really.
I'm a 33rd degree Freemason and lifelong member of the Bilderberg Group. In my spare time I enjoy Moloch worship, channeling alien entities from the planet Hatonn, and playing spot-the-reptoid at CFR meetings.
