I’m getting pretty tired of conspiracy theorists stealing my friends

One by one, my friends seem to be falling foul of a seemingly shocking video, a piece of literature, or a guy in the street chatting away about something or other.

I have to make it clear here, I don’t think the world is ideal, I don’t think politicians always tell us the truth and I don’t believe that everything is fine.  I also don’t believe that getting people worked up with limited information is worthwhile, or that calling people who disagree names is productive.  I don’t find the way that most of these groups go about things is very useful, it doesn’t serve their cause in general, and it doesn’t do much other than make them seem a bit difficult to talk to.  Most importantly of all:

I’ve never been told something by a pressure activist that I didn’t already know.

For all the angry people out there telling truths with outrage, there are loads of insane ones tellings untruths with equal outrage, but with the exact same approach, and there are a small bunch of people taking a different approach.

Did I know that Iran was a demoncracy until we fucked it up??  Well, yes, this is called history.  In 1954 an Anglo-american group catalysed a military coup in Iran with the intention of overthrowing the then democratically elected leaders, and replacing them with a leader who later became known as the famous “Facist Shah of Iran”.  Yes, I know this already.  Next.

“We went to war for no reason in Iraq”.  Yes, I already know that there were no discovered weapons of mass destruction.  Yes, it’s fucking outrageous and yes it will change my voting habits in future.  I believe that it would be appropriate to force the goverment of the time to produce in “irrefutable evidence” that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, but… (and this a big but) I already knew this too. In fact, everyone in the western world (with the exception of some Americans who can’t put Washington on a map) knows this. It’s not news, everyone is pissed off about it already.

For the record I am already aware that:

• Putting flouride in the water as standard has a detrimental affect on brain activity.  (I’m also aware that the evidence presented on this is over exagerrated beyond belief.  They tell me the UK is an army of zombies, yet I feel strangely awake…)
• The NHS has multiple issues which are not solved.
• There is some evidence for an old boys network within the western world, whether you wish to call it the illuminati, the polygon or whatever, I acknowledge that there is some evidence for this.  I also acknowledge that the evidence is sketchy at best.
• The list goes on…

My point is twofold.  Firstly, most of the stuff that these activists so forcefully tell me isn’t news.  To the activists:  I react with little resolve when you yell these things at me, because it’s like talking to an acid popping moron who thinks that they just discovered that grass is green.  I already knew, and I’m pretty exasperated that you think you are the only one to have found stuff out.

Secondly, the complaints about propaganda, hidden information and use of limited information I see from activists are themselves presented in a propagandist way.  How many videos have I seen in which the opening minute is a quick fire round of shots of people saying “weapons of mass destruction” and “Al-queda”?  This method of presentation (at this speed) is illegal in the UK for broadcast media, and the reason it is is because it psychologically affects people to accept a message subconsciously, without considering it.

When shown a minute containg 120 people saying stuff about Iraq or WMD, things you accept to be false, you are pre-programmed with the idea that politicians always lie, and then you’re hit by the idea of a global conspiracy that no one knows about.  The fact is politicians sometimes lie, not always.  Tony Blair wasn’t telling the truth when he talked about ‘irrefutable evidence’ for WMDs, but I can prove the truth of an increase in spending on the NHS in 1998, so he doesn’t always lie and neither do all politcians, or indeed anbody.  To watch stuff that preprogrammes you to think that these people are constantly lying will cloud your ability to consider the rest of the message.

My surnamesake, Alex Jones, pipes on about all of this stuff, and he tells people some stuff that they really should know, great.  He says it all in a kind of “my god did you know” kind of way that makes the viewer suspicious of everything else, and that sucks.  The truth is that we don’t know what goes on, but that means only one thing:  We don’t fucking know.

Notice how the important point is that there’s a lot we simply don’t know, not that we can therefore assume that whatever we guess is right.  That camp in America where powerful people meet up.  That’s odd isn’t it?  Do you know what’s going on there?  No.  Nor do I.  That’s it.  All we know is powerful people go there and have food, drink, and some bizarre rituals.  Anything else is just guessed.

Finally, my question to all those convinced they have correctly guessed (I mean fucking guessed, for fuck’s sake) what’s going on:

If you worked it out, and there is a conspiracy, why are you still alive?

Why haven’t they killed you if you’re much of a threat?  Two possible reasons:

1. You are passing on the message so badly that nobody believes it, or…
2. You’re wrong.

I don’t know which it is, but I know that historically, secret government conspiracies kill anyone who might stop them.  The SS shot anyone who even spoke against them, the KGB would have anyone killed who suggested they were a threat to the government.  Ditto every single major government corruption since forever.

Yet, you’re still alive.

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