How Many of These Conspiracy Theories Do You Believe?

The evil and incompetence of our institutions for #FreedomMusicFriday

I have a jumble of thoughts on today’s track—“I Told You So” by Conspiracy Music Guru (video below). I will try to make them make sense.

Back in February, we looked at another of Conspiracy Music Guru’s songs—a truly badass takedown of BigPharma. The majority of you FreedomScalers will recognize and agree with the charges Conspiracy Music Guru levels against that industry and what it did—using governments worldwide as power vectors to force their poison upon half the human population. And making several hundred new billionaires using money stolen through taxes and inflation.

Not all of you believe that, I know—but a significant majority do. I know my audience.

Conspiracy Music Guru’s “I Told You So” will certainly reduce that level of agreement, as it enumerates a pretty wild list of conspiracy theories. For many of us, quite a few of them will simply be a bridge too far. For example, I do not in any way, shape, or form believe the Earth is flat. I also see no reason to think that Sandra Bullock is a man. And there is plenty more in his list that don’t work for me.

But for right now, that is not the point I would like to make.

Over the last few years, we have observed a significant uptick in the number of people who are entertaining some fairly out-there theories—especially the claim that the Earth is flat. Needless to say, the evidence that the Earth is a sphere keeps mounting with each passing day. Why, in this day and age, would that number go up?

I think the answer is clear: Trust in our institutions is cratering, and rightly so. Governments, media, businesses, NGOs, academia, technocrats and ‘experts,’ entertainment, medical professionals, and more have all been telling us things that many of us now know are obviously lies.

These were the institutions we were supposed to be able to trust. We were supposed to be able to trust that they were searching for truth. We were supposed to be able to trust that they wanted what is best. Many of us now know, beyond a doubt, that these institutions are corrupt, incompetent, viciously evil, or some combination thereof.

We know that they do not have our best interests at heart. We know that they are working agendas that are not our own. We know that they are subject to the same venality, stupidity, and herd mentality as any other humans. Not only do they not hold themselves to the higher standard we expected, they appear to be significantly more stupid and more evil than the aggregate of humanity.

The rug has been pulled out from everything we were supposed to be able to trust. So now, people are willing to consider anything. For some, the sky’s the limit.

What else have they lied about?
I dunno, bro. Everything, I guess.

I myself have a heuristic I use: Just because the mainstream says something does not make it true. I am now very cautious. Did what they say happened actually happen, or happen in the way they say? Is something they claim is true actually true?

It is not easy to live in such a place of distrust. It is an ugly and unpleasant place to be. And yet it kept me and my family safe from the poison jab. The heuristic has value.

But it can also go too far. Not everything that has ever been said by anyone is a lie. I do not believe that Eratosthenes of Cyrene was part of a conspiracy when he (reasonably) accurately estimated the circumference of the Earth 2,200 years ago.

Virtually every institution in the civilized world has beclowned itself, or worse, leaving a minefield of mistrust in the human psyche. Yes, there are people who still believe everything they’re told—lots of ‘em, in fact. But you’re not one of them. So what to believe?

I cannot tell you how to navigate this minefield. This awareness has given us a peculiar kind of freedom. We have been freed from believing institutions that do not deserve our trust.

But what do we do with that freedom?

Whatever the answer, the song itself is seriously smokin’ blues-rock, so at least there’s that. Enjoy!

And feel free to use the comment thread to adjudicate which of his claims ought to be believed, denied, or ridiculed. That should be interesting!

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