The Australian essayist and social commentator “Unbekoming” has written a brilliant essay on the topic of conspiracy theories. He bases his article on the work of political scientist Michael Parenti. Here are a few excerpts from the essay:
“Coal miners consciously direct their efforts toward advancing their interests. So do steelworkers, small farmers, and schoolteachers. Labor unions exist precisely because workers concert together to pursue collective goals. No one calls this a conspiracy theory. It is called organizing.
“But suggest that the wealthy and powerful consciously concert with intent to defend their class interests, and you have crossed an invisible line. You are now a conspiracy theorist, a crank, possibly paranoid.
“Political scientist Michael Parenti put it directly: ‘It is allowed that farmers, steelworkers, or schoolteachers may concert to advance their interests, but it may not be suggested that moneyed elites do as much—even when they actually occupy the top decision-making posts. Instead, we are asked to believe that these estimable persons of high station walk through life indifferent to the fate of their vast holdings.’
“The double standard operates silently. Workers scheme; owners sleepwalk. The public pursues its interests; elites stumble through history moved by forces beyond their comprehension or control. This is the unexamined premise that makes “conspiracy theory” an effective slur.”
In other words, the Great Unwashed, in their attempt to probe into the hidden affairs of billionaires and wealthy elites, are mentally ill. But behind the scenes it is perfectly OK for the wealthy to sit and plan in their boardrooms and in their forums like the UN, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, and the Bank for International Settlements, the central bankers’ central bank.
…Parenti wrote: “’Conspiracy’ refers to something more than just illegal acts. It serves as a dismissive label applied to any acknowledgment of ruling-class power, both its legal and illegal operations.” The term functions not as a descriptor but as a weapon—a thought-terminating cliché that protects the powerful from scrutiny by pathologizing those who scrutinize them.
“Conspiracy denial, in Parenti’s analysis, is not skepticism. It is the opposite of skepticism. It is credulity toward power dressed up as critical thinking.
“As he wrote in Dirty Truths: ‘Just because some people have fantasies of conspiracies does not mean all conspiracies are imaginary.’”
Ruling Class Conspiracy Theories
An example of a ruling-class conspiracy theory is Climategate in 2009.
In November of that year, 61 megabytes of confidential files leaked on the internet from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the UK. The emails and documents showed that global warming establishment “scientists” were “manipulating data, suppressing dissent, evading transparency laws, and privately admitting their models didn’t work while publicly insisting the science was settled.” This scandal should have ended the global warming debate – but it didn’t. Why? Because the global warming scam involves trillions of dollars for climate stakeholders.
Official enquiries found nothing wrong, and the mainstream media called those who questioned global warming “conspiracy theorists.” The Climate Change agenda proceeded as if nothing had happened.
Why did so many powerful people have so much invested in ensuring the global warming agenda? Agenda 21, signed by 179 countries. Agenda 21 puts unelected bureaucrats in global organizations in charge of land use and resource consumption in all 179 countries. The goal is to place powerful people at the top of planet earth’s $100 trillion resource pyramid. We discussed this in earlier articles on Global Governance.
Sound familiar? Placing a few in charge of the billions – of the entire planet! – is classic psychopathy.
I used to think that global conspiracies were the product of paranoid and mentally unbalanced minds. But when I studied psychopathy I realized that that the goal of psychopaths IS to gain as much power as possible. Seen in this light, the COVID scam, Agenda 21, depopulation, and Global Governance aren’t just delusional fantasies. They make perfect sense. Humanity has just not realized the effect that a few percentage points of the population can have on the rest of us.
Because the wealthy and powerful hide their intentions and activities, investigators do not have all the data. Many conspiracy theories are educated guesses by serious researchers using the available information.
Because exposure is the enemy of the psychopath, the work of investigators such as Unbekoming, Whitney Webb, George Webb, Candace, escapekey, Elizabeth Nickson, Sasha Latypova, and dozens of others are essential. They aren’t always right but they make us aware of events, people, and situations that the controlled mainstream never mentions.
The origin of the term “conspiracy theory”
The term conspiracy theory was coined after public skepticism of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy. The Zapruder film, fully released in 1975, gave every American a chance to see what actually happened. That evidence doesn’t fit with a shot from behind JFK on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository building. After watching the film dozens of times, I see that JFK’s head snapped backwards and to the left, indicating to me that he could not have been shot from behind. I’m no ballistics expert, so see for yourself. The Zapruder film is only 29 seconds long.
Conspiracy deniers
Today’s mass shootings, where police body cam footage, documents, camera and phone recordings, and other evidence should be readily available to investigators, often aren’t. All modern assassinations utilize the tried and tested “lone gunman” theory. If you don’t believe me, start with JFK and look them up, there are dozens of them. It’s kinda in the Assassin’s Media Playbook: yet another lone lunatic – without help from anyone else – magically pulls off the crime and is conveniently arrested or killed. Case closed, nothing to see here!
After the shooting of Charlie Kirk, literally the entire crime scene was roped off, paved, painted over, and sanitized, preventing investigators from examining the crime scene. In Butler, PA, FBI agents were filmed hosing down the roof of the building where Thomas Crooks was shot dead. The shooter’s body was cremated on July 23, 2024, ten days after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. .
Authorities today, just as in 1963, seem more interested in covering up crimes than solving them. Apparently, the powerful have no qualms about creating conspiracy theories to protect themselves. They are, in effect, conspiracy deniers.
It’s why “conspiracy theorists” are needed. Serious researchers unearth inconvenient facts. This information can often negate mass media attempts to quickly formulate a Narrative that may conveniently hide the real conspiracy theory – the “official” version of events.
It’s also why censorship is necessary for the perpetrators. Accusations of “misinformation” and “disinformation” can act to hide or provide cover for criminal activity.
Summary
A conspiracy theorist is very often a serious researcher using available information to expose the nefarious activities of the wealthy and powerful, or State actors who use controlled media to hide crimes.
A conspiracy denier is one who does not believe that the wealthy and powerful organize to defend and expand their interests. Conspiracy deniers pillory those who investigate them.
