Some
people say they know a lot about the secret intentions behind everything that happens
in the World, the secret connections and such. Some of those theories, conspiracy
theories, are really wild, they make people believe that there is a real
reality where everything is opposed to we should naturally deduct from the
known facts.
We got kind of used to relating
conspiracy theories with the far right in politics, but the recent surge of
antisemitism in the left, the delusions of Zionist conspiracies, of the
supposed super power of a tiny nation, shows us that conspiracy theories exist
in all extremes.
This kind of theory don’t work with
real logics, like real valid deductions from known facts. The only logics it seems
to follow is that you should believe that the person who is saying it knows
much more than the others. That’s why those theories really gain traction when
they are endorsed and validated by rich, powerful and famous people.
People think, this guy must know
something. Then it grows like a snow ball, more and more people believing it. Some
people will believe something just because someone who is richer than him seem
to believe it, or it could be a teacher in college who you admire. The
validation comes not from logic, but from a certain ladder of success, academical
for certain people, or financial to others.
But then a paradox appears. Like,
these theories are supposed to tell the truth about the people who secretly
rule the world, but the theory is being revealed to you from the upper degrees
of a ladder of worldly success. But aren’t the people who rule the world in the
upper degrees?
How people normally “solve” this
paradox? Well, the people who get their “secrets” from the academical ladder of
success believe the academical world have nothing to do with the world of
financial power, and the people who get it from the economic ladder of success
seem to believe that these powerful depraved elites who rule the world are not
the same people who rule production, they are like, politicians and such, or
the people who master the financial stock roulettes.
But the point is that the academical
world, the political world, they need input, money input like every other big
thing – the financial roulette needs input too: the stock market sharks are not
so self sufficient, they have clients, investors. So, the world of production heavily
influences these other spheres of powers
Now, I am not saying that it is a
wrong thing to have success with production or in academia, or in politics, per
se, or even in financial investments. I am not a communist and I don’t think having
success is wrong per se, but the simple fact that a theory is “revealed” to you
by someone who is more successful should never be enough to validate it.
“This guy must know something” should
never substitute logics, real careful reasoning, real valid deductions. We must
think for ourselves. Where is it written that the search for truth and the
ladder of success must coincide perfectly?
If we throw logics away, we are
erasing the possibilities for understanding between human beings. If you give
someone the right to just point – and not have to prove – that “this guy said
this but it’s not what he believes” or even “he did this but it is just to hide
that” then how can we ever get to peace?
Of course people lie and do things
with weird intentions, but we can see the direction people and institutions are
going to, through their action and speeches. You don’t need secret theories, all
you need is to enlarge your frame of time. If you see not only what happened
this minute but learn about someone’s words and actions through history, then
you see the direction things are going.
I think nobody can rule the world as
if he was the screenwriter of one of those very crazy plot twist movies, where
everything seems to be going perfectly in one direction and in the end it was
all the opposite of what is seemed, because the masters were controlling every
little detail, like the exact place a rain drop would fall. People are not gods,
if you want something you usually have to push in that direction somehow.
So, because of paranoia, the belief
that common reason and logic are never sufficient to see the direction that
things are going, we are depriving the other human beings of a very crucial
right: The right of make declarations of principles not only with words but
with actions too.
If my words and your words, your
visible actions and my visible actions, don’t have any meaning, then how can we
ever solve any problem? We need to believe that our senses and our brains can
get us somewhere.
Iran
wants to defeat the Western world and they know they can’t pretend to love the
western world, so they openly say they hate it. That’s how they will push
people to fight for them. The extremist islamists are not even pretending they
don’t see their people as nothing more than potential martyrs. They say this
openly too.
On
the other hand when Israel accepted to release 240 people who committed violence to get 105 innocent hostages back, they made a statement, that they value more life
over death. They didn’t see their people as martyrs to be sacrificed in order
to defeat the criminals, they released even convicted terrorists and were ready
to defend themselves from the consequences of it, because they valued the life
of the innocent hostages as individuals.
There are a lot of lies in the world,
that’s true, but if our intention is a better world, we will have to restore
some kind of common sense, and we can’t do that by believing in information
that is even less proven than what the official channels tell us, just because
these “secrets” were revealed to us by people who gained our admiration for
reasons that have nothing to do with logic and clearness.
I have to admit that it is indeed a
very complex World. Even one of the Wikipedia founders openly said that the
site’s intended neutrality is long gone, and it is absolutely not reliable
anymore when it comes to polemic issues. It is depressing, but we are seeing it
happen, and we have to face it.
So what do we do? Right now, what I
can offer is this: there are indeed people who can honestly help you to see
beyond what the official channels tell. But we have to ask ourselves some
questions: are their theories leading us to a situation where we can, slowly
and with patience, deduct more and more from the visible world, or are they
leading us to a situation where soon nothing will mean nothing, except their “theory”?
Are they making us increasingly more
dependent of them, like, we will just need them more and more to see anything
at all, or are they helping us to gain autonomy, to become more and more able
to think for ourselves, and to try to dialogue with people who don’t read the
same things?
In other words, are they leading us
to freedom or trying to imprison us?
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