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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....
Lost me through part of that. Ha
Honestly I have no regrets being away from the news. I left Twitter and reading list news sites in 2019, and I felt like I was escaping an existing dumpster fire my the final strands of rope on a helicopter that was going full tilt upwards.
Then COVID happened, quarantine(s), work/lifestyle changes for everyone (incl me, tho that just meant learning programming/Sysadmin things), and by mid-2020 I had to search for what things were in order to have any idea what was being put on blogs. Some things searched for at the time were - what is Cancel culture?, is the US in a famine?, etc, as I had no idea what these things were though they seemed to be (are?) fairly prevalent on social media (well, not so much famine, but..). I think (theoretically) where I would be (mentally) if I had stayed on Twitter and the news gossip hearsay and shit-talk centers of the Web, and I would have likely needed to be committed to decompress from all the madness there.
Life is better w/o media (nearly all of it). I stay busy and amused with volunteer work, and sometimes slamming words onto Midnight.pub or in IRC, but other than that, it is all Real World, busy-bosy stuff. I am all for it! :)