It feels like topics I used to only see on r/conspiracy—like Epstein and the deep state—are now all over mainstream subreddits.
The US is doing what it always has done, only now the pretexts are weaker than ever. Did things really have to get this obvious before people finally realized that western governments only care about what’s best for the oligarchy?
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Humans are normally busy with all sorts of things that make them busy: working, dealing with social duties, etc. When they get some time free, they’re too exhausted to do their own research (that is, if they know how to do research, which most humans don’t), so they turn on the television (or their favourite YouTube channel) and listen to whatever the simulacrum says:
Therefore, being able to read conspiracy theories as deeply as possible, being able to do one’s own research, being able to spend nights on books and articles, it requires one to be unemployed or, at best, having some kind of job that doesn’t drain them mentally and allows for flexible time.
Also, there’s this “Boy crying wolf” dilemma when it comes to conspiracy theories: the same places where one can discover about Bilderberg Meetings before they became officially disclosed annual event, is the same place swearing that the Earth is some kind of DVD disc ruled by extraterrestrial lizards. I used to be an avid participant of conspiracy theory communities (not 4chan, but Orkut and Telegram communities) and a conspiracy theorist myself, but these nonsensical theories were part of the reason why I departed both from conspiracy theory communities, and from christianity as well, as I began to realize how “satanic panic” was christian bigotry.
For most people, the busy and vampiric mundane life, alongside the perception of “craziness” when it comes to conspiracy theories, contributed to this boiling frog phenomenon.
But, yeah, lots of conspiracies, once theories, became fulfilled, and became integrated into the normalcy.
Maybe “ignorance is a bliss” (Cypher, The Matrix), and not knowing what will happen beforehand gives one the necessary delusions to keep their biological existence going.
Unfortunately, this is no longer my case for more than a decade. And now, with the once-conspiratorial internet ID (“age check”, now extended to OSes so, essentially, “internet ID”) helped cemented my long-standing hopelessnes… Because, now, as someone who departed from Christianity into the very opposite belief (devoted to The Dark Mother Goddess), but still surrounded by mostly christian people (and this includes potential employers, buyers and merchants), the slightest leak (purposeful and whatnot) of my real legal identity tied to my openly, mostly-occultist online activity will further cement my social ostracisation (being refused from jobs because the employers will see my online activity tied to my age check and argue that I “worship the devil” or something). But, yeah, “nothing to hide, nothing to fear”, people say…