“The search for conspiracy, only increases the elements
of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country.
It romanticizes crimes that are terrible,
because of their lack of purpose.
It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us,
that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.”
Anthony Lewis, New York Times, 1975
Tragedy upon tragedy without reason, even Comix can’t break the tedium. No Good News Today read the headlines. Doom is surely at hand, or close afoot when the other shoe drops. Only a fool would bet against that. There’s no Cure for Despair except Innocent Insouciance or Rooting for the End Days.
Serenity in Sinsemilla. Used to be paranoid personalities required illegal herb and leftist politics, now the Far Right bellows Defund the FBI! Never the twain shall meet guarantees they will disagree on almost everything when they do. Where we can agree has to be our common ground in a splintered forest. Our Absolute Right of Medical Freedom for whatever reason is the bottom line. It’s the Turtle on Top.
Some zealots would bring back witch trials and public drownings, rather than watch St. Antimony slither offstage to his satanic brood. Snake Handling as proof of innocence would reduce the glacial pace of justice. Guillotine by tribunal was swift, so efficient it tumbrelled on like a Giant Meatball with its own momentum, hindered only by a shortage of blades. Vengeance is not Justice, it is infinitely more satisfying. Unquenchable unfortunately, fueled by feuds til the End of Time.
Conspiracies are hot as a medium, McCluhan may have said. Obsession steams open synapses. Understanding deeper forces, possessing obscure knowledge of not so Secret Societies gives us a sense of control over chaos. Why Not? Who Knows? What’s Truth? Epistemological Extinctualism.*
Rabbit Holes reveal myriad passages into Fractal Mazes of conspiratorial causes. Such a feast in the Hall of the Mountain King, it’s hard to communicate with our mouths full. Alice shouting from a Deep Well. Rip Van Winkle emerging with tales of trolls and thundering pins. Entertaining Explanations. Harmless diversions until Passion becomes Poison.
Phalanxes of Psychologists were employed to craft tactics for vaccine persuasion from various authoritative sources. Sow confusion, fear and misdirection as fuel injection. PsyD’s provided best practices for deculting a dissenter. Psychologists redefining torture on Guantanamo are itching to get their hands on terrorists in the Homeland. Handle them gently with a velvet glove above the table, while fondly choking their privates with an iron fist below.
Has the Science of Persuasion become a Dead Zone with Covaxxes? “Vaccine Hesitants” have only grown in numbers and boldness while our prophesies unfolded. California anti-vaxxers were just given credit for quashing a bill to allow 15 year olds to be injected without parental permission. We were swatted aside like gadflies only seven years ago, when California parents lost religious and philosophical rights to exempt their schoolchildren from mandatory inoculations. Chronicled in Mandatory Vaccinations = Totalitarian Inoculation, my 2016 book-electronic version free to subscribers.
Expect another Counter Reformation while calling for Nuremberg Resurrections. We will have to build our case with personal conversations spreading like slime mold or become kettled by shrinking Free Speech Zones. People we know, family and friends, haven’t a clue. Actively believe the impossible. Perfectly Safe and Effective. Don’t want to listen. Even our most compelling evidence hides in a parallel universe to that of corporate news.
Any telemarketer knows, Cold Calling is rarely effective. Unless we’re preaching to the choir, it’s like Speaking to the Sphinx. They won’t dive into the Abyss without a ladder. Electronic links to a podcast or video without synopsis are seeds cast to sterile swine. WEF = wtf to most Americans.
Personal experience is most effective, or examples from those known by fame or proximity. Most likely they will remain in denial of their own deterioration following two shots and a clot booster without rapid onset. Even then. True Believers won’t come down from the hilltop until winter comes.
Did you know that masks and vaccinations made people sicker, not safer? may get through the eye of their attention needle.It’s more difficult to move the needle weighed down with baggage of depopulation plandemics, virus, global warming and moon landing hoaxes. Jesus returning, alien interventions and communist/capitalist plots. Nuclear Power vs Green Energy. Save those for the latter days. Of course you can bring up the Kennedy assassinations. No one believes the official lies for those.
The Emperor has costly clothes, made of a tissue of lies from Smoke and Mirrors. Dampen one strand with doubt and the rest will dissolve in due time. Unfortunately, not in quicktime. After forty years of being twenty years ahead of the times, I’ve grown accustomed to waiting on the bus. Never on time, unless you’re late. No expectations, no disappointments is Buddha’s Ninth Way ticket to Nirvana. Haven’t mastered the Middle Way, much less the twelve steps to sobriety.
*Cut loose from Tetherings of Truth by the Indeterminacy of Knowing.
"Our Absolute Right of Medical Freedom for whatever reason is the bottom line. It’s the Turtle on Top."
"Handle them gently with a velvet glove above the table, while fondly choking their privates with an iron fist below"
"Even our most compelling evidence hides in a parallel universe to that of corporate news."
"Any telemarketer knows, Cold Calling is rarely effective. Unless we’re preaching to the choir, it’s like Speaking to the Sphinx. They won’t dive into the Abyss without a ladder."
Enjoyed your writing Stephen.
I have pasted some of my favourite lines.
Testing. Should I bother writing a comment or when I hit POST is the comment going to be lost and I get an invitation to “sign in” for “security” over and over again? I will screenshot this and test.