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I try to think of a thing to write, then I think of TOO MANY things to write. And then I don't write any of them. But still write something.
So, it goes to journaling (how was my day) et al
It was a decent day. Started with fruit in the morning, then onto pizza, then coffee coffee coffee. I finished out the night with videos about archaeological structures, Easter Island info (apparently part of a continent called "Mu" (no claims/proof of this by myself - I failed archaeology in high school, so... ;)
I remember the conspiracy days of past. I used to listen to Coast to Coast AM, batshit things like "Big Foot being a laser projection from the moon in order to intimidate folks in the PNW", to more *actual* info, like the population of Monarch Butterflies dropping in population from 4.1 million in the North American/Mexico region to roughly 350,000 in less than 20 years. Side: I saw a Monarch Butterfly the other day.
Anyway, the conspiracy stuff (the former, not the latter) was "innocent" back in 2013 (that era, likely before) as nothing came of it. Now conspiracy theorists and conspiracies, themselves, have become a threat to many. Not so much that more people believe them, or that those who believe them believe them MORE, it's that more of a spotlight has been put on them for politico-media reasons.
One thing I'll say on that, is (rather people believe them or not) if someone sees a thing on social media (and shared (recommended?)) by someone they know/love, it carries more weight as to the legitimacy or significance of that thing. I can also say that since the age of 8, I have been more or less obsessed with media, newspapers, magazines, + other forms of non-journalistic media (books, movies, music) and I feel that I was media literate at a very young age. Not because any of those events/stories had too much of an impact on an 8 year old, but because I wanted to write like the people writing the articles. So being knowledgeable of how they were written and what constituted GOOD v BAD writing/reporter was what was going to separate the "decent" writers from the shite ones. With that, I can say that what is in the media, or/and headlines, is less good/bad or even new/relevant (e.g news), but more concerned with HOW they (publications) get their stories across. Tweet-sized bytes of a paragraph for sharing, every few sentences being able to be boiled down to a "shareable" clip - the click brings the bacon, not the story/article within.
Rounding back to the point, be it political, conspiratorial, AI-phony content, whatever the case, it's gonna go further, be more permeable, when shared in a clip-sized setting or/and by a friend or family member.
So there's some littered thoughts turned typing
I used to admire the columnists that could boil a fairly deep thought into a very vivid and coherent summary sentence, but these days that same skill has been exploited, digitized and used to create clickbait for the masses.
I used to be a bit into "conspiracy theories" in my early 20s. I had a friend who was more prone to take them seriously, well, a couple of them, actually. One of them for a while wouldn't shut up about the illuminati, the reptilians, he even mentioned David Icke (yuck!) a few times; we worked together, too, so I was quite familiar with the lore for a while. The other guy liked to know about ancient advanced civilizations: Atlantis, Lemuria, Vimanas in India (excuse me, Bharat), alleged archeological findings of giants, which "science" covered up, and of course it all went in hand with secret societies ruling the world, too. We used to have a running joke about "HAARP wednesdays". I was always half skeptic, but I did like to entertain all those possibilities. Yesterday I was reminded about HAARP wednesdays when my wife said the earthquake in Russia was surely "a HAARP attack".
I think we all like to engage in such "conspiracy theories" (by the way, I've heard someone claim that the term itself was issued by the CIA to discredit some actual stuff going on, by lumping it all together with reptilian shapeshifters and flat earth "theory"), we all like them, to a greater or lesser extent. It is indeed true that there are sorts of "secret societies" that have immense political power, and it's not unlikely thay they engage in some form of ritual magic. Of course, the stuff about reptilian shapeshifters is very likely our own furnishing, but that's human imagination for you.
I remember I used to argue with a friend of mine (another!), telling her "I've never seen a reptilian shapeshifter, but I have certainly seen humans kill thousands and destroy whole ecosystems for personal gain", and she told me a fanciful story about an acquaintance of an acquaintance see a reptile hand emerge from a hooded figure in a very hush-hush event in some office building, who was eating a human baby. Apparently, that was proof enough for her.
I went through an overt conspiracy theory fascination phase in the days of my youth, long before the internet. It was what I want to call "classical conspiracy theories", e.g. The Rothchilds, The Bilderbergers. I want to say there was some "Adam Weiskaupt" (sp?) in the mix. New world order. Hints on the back of the dollar bill. Blah blah.
I knew I was a fool to believe, and yet oh, the seduction of the print material delivering such.
Nowadays, conspiracy seems essentially a dead topic for "news" media having replaced basically all descriptions of events with gossipy insinuation of hidden intent, complete with "leading", context tinkering/circumcision/bludgeoning, etc. In other words, what does/could "conspiracy" mean when everything's conspiracy?
The net (ha): I don't believe a word of "the news" regardless the source. Looks like anything/everything for an advertising buck.
There are also subconscious "in person" effects, i.e. others seeming like faith zombies, glassy-eyed on the verge of melting down for being one of the few that "gets it" while being mostly surrounded by... by, well, those I'm describing surrounding me. ;-)
It turns out that taking everything to be fiction is not too far off the enlightenment/liberation pace....