Over time my views have not really changed that drastically but the way I view things has changed somewhat. I guess that means my views have changed a little. I am talking conspiracy. Lately I have noticed myself being much more cynical about conspiracies. I think it is because I see a flood of conspiracy theories constantly and in many cases I see little evidence.

I used to be the kind of person who would see a big event in the news and try and figure out the angle that the evil hidden forces were taking when they constructed it. Now i view news stories and wonder what conspiracy will be made up around it. Of course maybe that means that the evil "they" have gotten to me. Maybe I work for them or something. Maybe I am mind controlled working for the CIA or something. Was my mother actually Jewish making me Jewish and therefore a part of the evil plan?

Of course that is not the case. I am just a person and I have to decide for myself what to make of the information I am presented, I have learned at college when I studied Media and at home on my internet travels that the media works a certain way and so I take that information with a pinch of salt. I wonder what they are not reporting and why. Of course I know it often boils down to money revenue from advertising. If you say this product is unsafe or something then they are unlikely to pay you for advertising.

Anyway when the Sandy Hook shootings happened I saw all those questions being asked. I saw how everything was "proof" of this conspiracy that I was simply not buying. So I saw the flip side essentially. So it hit me that you really could just sit there and make one up. I mean sure that is obvious but I wondered about doing it for real but that experiment would require more discipline than I have right now.

I have moved in Conspiracy theory circles for a while and remember one topic close to my heart which was JFK`s assassination. I went to davidicke.com and discovered all these crazy out there theories that I saw as simply giving conspiracy theorists a bad name. Jackie did it or the driver did it theories were easy to disprove but some people would cling to them like their life depended on it.


I decided to see what good old Alex Jones was saying so I popped over to infowars and found a conspiracy pop out at me. If you cast your minds back to the Virginia tech shootings you might recall the image that went around of an Asian guy in army dress of some sort. Alex and others claimed it was Cho the shooter who was of course actually an agent for the Illuminati or something. Well at the time I said to myself it must be him. Looking back I am not so sure and would even suggest it is most likely not him.

So I was on infowars and saw this


Clearly Alex Jones is in fact a soldier in the picture on his very own website. Of course people claim Alex is this or that but I don`t think anybody has so far noticed this. So I got the scoop and shared it here. Now I sit back and wait.

So even though I believe in some conspiracy theories I think it is important not to get bogged down by bull shit. We need to stick to facts and avoid the speculative stuff. I mean you can really make yourself look paranoid quite easily.

So this is my new fun game. I shall not put any effort in to it though because I am not trying to make money.

I get what you are saying on the whole...then not at all sure where you are going after the pic. AJ is a soldier of what where?

The soldier in the photo looks just like AJ.

Ah, ok.

I'm in a similar position to you now although I think I've just got over the shock of having other news sources available beyond the MSM and punk records/fanzines since the internet came along. At first it's an overwhelming wave of info, slowly becoming manageable as we choose our 'niche' interests and focus on them. Eventually this becomes exhausted and repetitive and we step back a bit. Now I tend to see a news story and just wonder "what's the real story they are hiding?" without investigating it to any extent unless it's something currently on the radar anyway.

Are we jaded? Maybe.
Are we a bit calmer and saner? Probably.

I think with AJ there's a degree of Pavolova's chihuaha at werk, if you know what I mean, same with everyday people, (in my case I used to blather on and on and be the last person tallking in most occasions about history, weird shit, strange facts I'd learnt on conspiracy forums, I felt I had something unique and original to say) there is a certain satisfaction I think you derive from feeling you have gone more towards a concrete understanding of a very complex reality where power relations are seeming to be becoming more infocentric, "fact based", facts can be twisted let's be frank about that, it's what the media does and it's what the alternative media does, I like Charlie Brooker, if you can watch any of his stuff on the media from the US on youtube give him a try, more highbrow critiques would be Debord, Society of the Spectacle, Slavoj Zizeck or Post Modernist narratives, critiques on pop culture, disregard the media at your peril I think..The problem with conspiracy is imo it's like an inversion, you learn about historical conspiracy spanning long periods of time, factual historical coverups and assassinations are tied in then the narratives dry up around the 70's through to the 90's during Neo-Liberalisation, the commoditization of everything, then get going again in the nineties and big time with the events of 9/11, so now everyday you can go online, it's not waiting a year or two for the conspiracy narrative on some event, now it's the conspiracy behind every event, the "grand historical conspiracies" become common place daily occurence.

what you will find is that it will become banal, because your senses of humours, your sense of irony, general knowledge and arguing, dialectic, reasoning skills are improving, i've watched various post conspiracy tendencies develop I do consider this among the least naval gazingly inane, I remember vaguely the days of the original Harris Icke forum, the various forums that sprang from that are quite numerous, miss Tizwaz had about 2054 herself I think at one point, was she really John Drake in disguise, or his nemesis or both?

But yeah

was gonna say but yeah good to see you around again IB.

Are you an "anti-authoritarian person made to measure?" This clip contains, in part, what some people refer to as The New Word Order (NWO) - but minus the hocus-pocus child-like imagination that has turned the notion of the NWO into a sort of Tolkienesque fairy tale disinformation transmission that scrambles the idea of itself via the pseudo-mythological feedback generated by the communication of it - a mentally disarming self-communication that works via the generation of the powerful construct of ridiculousness (inexplicableness) causing its discussion to become extremely caustic for "serious minded people" - especially with sanitized name brands to maintain outwardly (inwardly sometimes as well) - leaving only "not serious minded" people to take up its banner - thereby completely disqualifying it via the strange poor company it keeps. Genius!