COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
That must be some journal to publish such a feeble idea and
some academic to come up with it.
It is simply ridiculous work to be called science or
research or even an idea.
The standards in academia have fallen almost everywhere and
thus the rise in pseudo-journals for second-raters trying to get published.
Our world can be divided into things which are simply facts and
all the rest, including fears and lies and nonsense.
One certifiable fact of today's world is that governments
have invested increasingly in elaborate lies and misrepresentations to their
people. This reflects both increased prosperity with so much more at risk than
ever before and the world-scale of so many events and activities.
In Britain, the examples of Tony Blair's stream of lies or
the mysterious death of Doctor Kelly surely resonate with many ordinary souls who
could never be called "conspiracy theorists."
In the United States, the list is huge, as you might expect
in a country whose establishment focuses on controlling events everywhere and
telling others how to live their lives.
Another fact is that the very term, "conspiracy
theorist," was coined by the CIA decades ago to be used to disparage honest
people who just want to know the truth about some important events such as the
Kennedy assassination.
That term was picked up by the press and is still used to
this day. It's a rather sad reflection of the state of our press and its
relationship to the government and the establishment.
Propaganda articles like this one - The Independent regularly does them to keep the term
"conspiracy theorist" alive and flourishing - always dredge up the
skeptics about moon landing, clearly in the eyes of most people a paranoid
fringe group. We hardly need a professor’s formula to determine the validity of
what is complete nonsense.
But such articles never deal with the really hard cases. The
lies of Tony Blair. The murder of doctor Kelly , a man who knew too much about
WMD. The downing of Flight MH 17 and the unacceptable investigation of it. The
American-induced coup in Ukraine. The murderous efforts of Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, and Israel to topple Assad and turn Syria into the kind of broken
mini-states we see in Iraq. The infinite lies that made a million deaths in
Iraq possible. Israel's explanations for the horrors of Gaza. And the list goes
on and on.
Great powers playing dirty games lie and hide what they do
every day, and calling someone a "conspiracy theorist" who says so is
just derogatory, not informative.
It actually resembles, albeit in a lighter vein, calling
someone who questions Israel's brutal treatment of millions an
"anti-Semite." You might not think such a nonsense dirty tactic would
work, but it is repeated day after day.
It was Hitler - one of history's great liars and therefore
an authority on the subject - who explained the concept of "the big
lie." Say even something outrageous often enough, and people will believe
it, at least enough of them to matter.
Indeed that is a founding, unspoken principle of almost all
advertising and of almost all our news sources today. And that is no
"conspiracy theory," just a hard fact.
