The Australian essayist and social commentator \u201cUnbekoming\u201d 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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cCoal 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPolitical scientist Michael Parenti put it directly: \u2018It 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\u2014even 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.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe 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 \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d an effective slur.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019 central bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n…Parenti wrote: \u201c\u2019Conspiracy\u2019 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.\u201d The term functions not as a descriptor but as a weapon\u2014a thought-terminating clich\u00e9 that protects the powerful from scrutiny by pathologizing those who scrutinize them<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cConspiracy denial, in Parenti\u2019s analysis, is not skepticism. It is the opposite of skepticism. It is credulity toward power dressed up as critical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs he wrote in Dirty Truths: \u2018Just because some people have fantasies of conspiracies does not mean all conspiracies are imaginary.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Ruling Class Conspiracy Theories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
An example of a ruling-class conspiracy theory is Climategate in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In November of that year, 61 megabytes of confidential files leaked on the internet from the University of East Anglia\u2019s Climatic Research Unit in the UK. The emails and documents showed that global warming establishment \u201cscientists\u201d were \u201cmanipulating data, suppressing dissent, evading transparency laws, and privately admitting their models didn\u2019t work while publicly insisting the science was settled.\u201d This scandal should have ended the global warming debate \u2013 but it didn\u2019t. Why? Because the global warming scam involves trillions of dollars for climate stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Official enquiries found nothing wrong, and the mainstream media called those who questioned global warming \u201cconspiracy theorists.\u201d The Climate Change agenda proceeded as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s $100 trillion resource pyramid. We discussed this in earlier articles on Global Governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sound familiar? Placing a few in charge of the billions \u2013 of the entire planet! \u2013 is classic psychopathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>, Agenda 21, depopulation, and Global Governance aren\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019t always right but they make us aware of events, people, and situations that the controlled mainstream never mentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The origin of the term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The term conspiracy theory<\/em> 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\u2019t 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\u2019s head snapped backwards and to the left, indicating to me that he could not have been shot from behind. I\u2019m no ballistics expert, so see for yourself.<\/a> The Zapruder film is only 29 seconds long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conspiracy deniers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Today\u2019s mass shootings, where police body cam footage, documents, camera and phone recordings, and other evidence should be readily available to investigators, often aren\u2019t. All modern assassinations utilize the tried and tested \u201clone gunman\u201d theory. If you don\u2019t believe me, start with JFK and look them up, there are dozens of them. It\u2019s kinda in the Assassin\u2019s Media Playbook: yet another lone lunatic \u2013 without help from anyone else \u2013 magically pulls off the crime and is conveniently arrested or killed. Case closed, nothing to see here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s body was cremated on July 23, 2024, ten days after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s why \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d 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 \u2013 the \u201cofficial\u201d version of events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s also why censorship is necessary for the perpetrators. Accusations of \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation\u201d can act to hide or provide cover for criminal activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Australian essayist and social commentator \u201cUnbekoming\u201d 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: \u201cCoal miners … Continue reading