Conspiracy!

Recently I've come in contact with an old friend who, being like minded, subscribed me to several (radical) organizations on the Facebox. These groups include but are not limited to: Club V, World Truth, FU-NWO, Black Ops Liberty Clan, Children of Liberty, and We Are Change London. My initial excitement quickly petered out as I recognized these groups for what they are. Exempli gratia: on World Truth's wall Phillis "WeArechange" Georgia writes:

"My wonderful fellow human beings. We all know that the mouth of hell yawns before us. But has it occured to us that we are so close to running out of time that all these bits of proof we are offering each other have now become merely distractions? The internet is being kept on because it is serving someone else's purpose, NOT OURS. These bits of information, no matter how true they are, are keeping us from uniting in a meaningful way.

I don't know if you are aware of it or not, but Chaos is the name of an actual god. This god, among others, is one of the gods the Illuminati literally worship. The outbreaks of skirmishes, death, bold despotism, anger, and hatred all over the globe are ENERGY. This was INTENTIONALLY set off in order to feed the antichrist. He NEEDS this energy in order to rise. Now, whether you believe this or not, it does not matter. Even on basic levels we already know that anger and hatred serve to divide. So, let's not participate. Instead, let's pool our efforts toward learning how to unite with each other in the most meaningful way so that we can defeat this evil and send it shrinking back into the bowels of hell from which it is rising. This does not require any violence whatsoever. Just stop participating. Stop transmitting negative energy.

So far, we have united in anger. And, that's a good thing! Anger offers clarity, and we desperately needed clarity because we had none before we met each other. But it has occured to me that we are ready to begin letting go of anger more than we may realize. If the goal is to survive, what good does a ticker tape parade of evidence do for us? Ultimately, uniting in anger is not True uniting at all because it does not last! What happens when no one is angry anymore? We all go our separate ways, and the bonds we forged fade into the annals of human history. History, as we all know, is written only by the victors. This time, humanity will not be forgotten. It is time to start putting these things aside that make us angry and indignant, and learn the old ways of what it means to unite as humans. This we can do together, also by sharing bits of information!"

Well fuck-my-ass there goes the notion of there existing an objective organization (on Facebook) that understands the infinite levels of corruption and conspiracy present in all the systems that control our daily life in a non-children's book/bible kinda way. SMH. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, after all most consensus on conspiracy theories comes from low quality YouTube documentaries which espouse facts with no sourcing and always take the most simplistic route in assigning blame. The villains are: (and always are, I mean this in a profound no-bullshit-honest-Joe type of way)  always the ubiquitous Illuminati, the NWO, the always vexing 10th planet nibiru, the David Icke conspiracy of lizard people, the Rothschilds/all Jews, and then any mixture of these conspiracies you can possibly imagine.

My biggest problem with all the bullshit rhetoric that gets kicked around on the internets (by Alex Jones/Glenn Beck type demagogues) is that the greater theory of conspiracy is diluted, bottled, and sold to those who don't know better. And we do know better, we know we are being lied to. We all inherently know - deep in our guts -balls to bones - that we are being hoodwinked. And the problem is now that there exist those who decry the liars, those who call for change, who illustrate the conspiracies, but these people are nothing more than liars cornering the market of people who are slightly aware of the fact that they have been lied to in the first place. This is essentially another level of deception, liars who sell new lies by revealing the old ones - "Yes your government is out to deceive you and put you in concentration camps... so buy my survival kit and some gold bullion!" What we are seeing today in Alex Jones and those of his ilk, are the new carpetbaggers of information, those that exploit our yearning for truth by giving us bits and pieces of it redistributed in a whole new set of lies.

And we know we are being lied to. My generation has grown so apathetic to the political process precisely because from a young age we have been "pitched to" by armies of ad men selling He-Man and Barbie and Colgate and Coca-Cola so when some boring suit talks about something abstract like "character" or "hope" we immediately recognize that they are lying and they are in it for themselves . We know we are being lied to, if for no other reason than this basic fact: we are "pitched to" at least 50 times a day - pop up ads online, billboards, commercials on TV, commercials on the radio, newspaper and magazine ads, ads on the subways, ect. ect. and this happens so much its nearly unconscious and we no longer actively think about it. This constant barrage is like living with a really sexy charming persuasive liar, who lies chronically but you never really can tell what exactly their lying about, you just get the feeling that if you buy that sportscar your wife's tits won't be so disproportionately huge, or you just feel that rainbows won't shoot out of your ass if you eat a particularly sugary breakfast cereal, or maybe you just know that 4 out of 5 dentists don't smoke Lucky Strikes.

But the really painful part about all of this shit is that we know we are being lied to - but it is almost impossible in this sea of conspiracies to discern what is actually the truth from what is gibberish. And if you believe in conspiracies then it becomes easier to believe that this itself is a conspiracy; that somewhere out there a low level government bureaucrat is purposely making  painfully low production value YouTube videos about how Alicia Keys and Beyonce speak in witch tongue and serve satanic masters by using Masonic signs which is, of course, all part of the Illuminati pancake conspiracy of everything.

Whether this conspiracy to water down conspiracy theories is true or not is ultimately irrelevant, what is important is that real conspiracies go unnoticed in our midst. I think the problem that most people have nowadays is that the information about "real" conspiracies is right in front of them, but they don't have the attentions spans, focus, will or desire to give a shit if its real or not. In one sense we've been lied to so goddamn much that any piece of news that illustrates plutocratic evil, governmental misconduct, or corporate malfeasance just serves to confirm our already inculcated apathy. In a deeper sense, we only have that reaction when we actually see something that should piss us off and most of the time we don't, this is all sterilized and neutralized by a mass media saturated in mindless sound bites and A.D.D. inducing jump cuts. All we really have to do to discover the conspiracies that are all around us in contemporary culture is READ. Yes, read.

We don't like to read anymore. A survey done by the Jenkin's Group revealed these statistics:

• 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.^[7][8]

There is kind of a primal gut churning fear that arises when asked to read, an amygdala based reaction of "oh shit theres gotta be a way outta this" kind of escapism that we seek when we asked to be still and quiet and take in new information and think. We are so instilled with digital and electronic stimulation that it is hard to imagine a life without those devices like TV, radio, internet, iPod, cell phone ect etc except when we have to read. We are so hooked on our toys that we can no longer entertain ourselves. But no one ever thinks of this as a conspiracy: that the supposedly most advanced people on earth are functionally illiterate and completely apathetic to those that control the wealth and systems of power around them. Hmmm.

Maybe if we were more more literate we would have read Carroll Quigley's epic tome "Tragedy and Hope" which, in over 1,300 pages, in no uncertain terms, describes how the Round Table Group founded by Cecil Rhodes (yes the Rhodes Scholar guy) has come to dominate everything that shapes foreign policy and international banking, IE spawning the Bilderburg Group, the Trilateral Commission, Council of Foreign Relations ect. which I know sounds pretty crazy but is actually just some of those facts that we ignore or remain ignorant of.

Or maybe if we read more we'd discover that after it was rumored that the ace up the sleeve Wikileaks had been threatening to dish out was possibly dirt on Bank of America. Bank of America then went to the Justice Department of United States federal government, and the Justice Dept. put BoA in contact with a sleezy law firm that put them in touch with a corporate hacker who in his attempt at espionage of Wikileaks openly flouted the law, so much so that his illegal actions were written down in emails that then got leaked when Anonymous reverse hacked him. This is one of the most important new stories of the year, and as such completely uncovered by major media outlets.

Or maybe if we read we'd learn that the British government just declassified over 8,000 UFO files. Seriously its on their official National Archives website here. I can't make it up but you can learn about UFO's from the thousands of files available for free courtesy of the the RAF and the UK.


Or maybe if we read even the mainstream paper we'd learn that JPMorgan in collusion with HSBC and the Fed have cornered the silver market.And even tried to kill the guy that exposed them!

Or maybe we would have read the leaked CitiGroup memo that demonstrated that our economy was now a Plutonomy and offered solutions to cater to the rich, and undermine our basic freedoms.

But these are just crazy theories right? UFOs can't be real and banks don't collude with government for their own benefit. That would just be crazy.

That would be as crazy as in someone believing in an Illuminati conspiracy but not believing that the CIA brought crack into inner city LA.

As crazy as believing that lizard people controlled the world but not believing the US government infected poor black Alabama sharecroppers with syphilis even after the cure had been discovered, letting them die until 1972.

As crazy as someone actually taking the time to read all this.

- DJV