Tin foil hat stored safely.
iLearn, you have many good points there.
Having both an inquisitive mind and some spare time can lead people to explore too many rabbit holes trying o find logical answers to the craziness we’re surrounded every day. As for myself, while I will admit that conspiracies do exist, like criminal conspiracies (price rigging, drug cartels, media propaganda, etc) I also find it very difficult to believe that major, large scale conspiracies could be successfully implemented. There would simply be too many variables to control, which would require enormous amounts of resources and people to be involved. Having many people involved, the possibility of full control and full secrecy decreases considerably, and therefore the risks increase and the possible returns decrease. I would dare say that the possible returns decrease so much that the would be conspirators would achieve more money and power just by investing the same resources in legal enterprises.
That being said, I can also see a pattern, in the sense that many seemingly unrelated entities seem to act in the same direction and at the same time, which would make one logically conclude a “Hidden” connection might exist, therefore: large scale conspiracy. I believe those scenarios to be more simple and natural that this, and honestly, more plausible.
Now, to be more specific. There are varying levels of influence each human has. The more money or political/social influence one has, the more power that person has. I believe that is self-evident. At the same time, there are a limited number of PRODUCERS in this world and a limited number of resources.
It is only natural for humans to want to accumulate resources, thus each of us (or most of us at least) will try to use our above mentioned power to either produce them, acquire them or steal them.
And here is where I don’t think it necessarily has to be a conspiracy in order to see various events unfolding:
Many people are not producers and have nothing(or are unwilling) to trade in order to get resources. So, each such individual will need to TARGET the producers in order to steal (by illegal or legal plunder) the resources they produce. Now, of curse, the richest or more powerful of them will initiate the first plunders, and they will start by trying to weaken the producer’s defenses. (Taxes, tariffs and protection rackets are good examples of this).
But then, as soon as the producers are somewhat weakened, the next level of plunderers will get on the bandwagon seeing their opportunity(unions, special interest groups, minorities, etc, that push for entitlement laws). Then it will be the various bureaucracies that will curtail liberties and impose vast number of regulations on producers, and each individual bureaucrat will be acting in his own interest to create problems that will justify his JOB, and thus his take of the general plunder. Next is the media, who joins the bandwagon, and so on and so forth up until every single Non-Producer finds his or her niche to suck money of the system.
Now, all of the combined actions of all of these actors will of course be directed at the producers, will be relatively timed together (no crisis should go to waste) and each one of them will deny actual INTENT to plunder. For a logical mind, all these similarities and correlations might suggest CAUSALITY, meaning that said correlations are a result of some greater conspiracy. I’m not going to say that conclusion is wrong or not. It’s up to each individual to decide, but for MYSELF, I find it much more plausible that while small groups might conspire to plunder specific individuals or to influence specific events, the overall situation is the result of various plundering groups or individual jumping on the bandwagon and taking advantage of national/global trends in which the producers are weakened and are more easily robbed of their resources.
And to bring it “home” in the context of this website, many individual women have become plunderers of producing men, jumping on the bandwagon of the feminists, that jumped on the bandwagon of the socialists who jumped on the bandwagon of the growing government power triggered by corporate special interest…. and so on.
So, yes, all these things might be related, but they don’t necessarily have to be some grand conspiracy. (withing each group, and on specific issues, may very well be some. In fact some of them have been proven to exist, so there you go).
The answer is NO. “I could but I won’t”. Memini murum!
Bee 4 years, 2 months ago.
