Conspiracy theories

MK Ultra.
Not a "Conspiracy Theory"...
A Fact...

I recently read an very interesting interview in the UK Guardian Newspaper, where the interviewer/journalist spoke with a self confessed conspiracy theorist whom was labelled for some quite awful online content, such as extreme anti-semitism, among other flavours of discrimination. It was a very sensitively handled piece, and instead of the common attack on the guy that is the usual tack of such pieces, he was desperately trying to understand why an essentially decent and friendly guy would say such awful things.
The conspiracist was of the usual type, not especially smart in his conspiracy thinking, despite being intelligent, but rather subsumed into the conspiracies he swam in with little question. On being carefully challenged on these he instantly started to withdraw from the conversation, unable to counter the factual questioning, but unwilling to to engage. But the most interesting part for me was when the interviewer tried the interesting tack of trying to engage in real conspiracies, such as the current enquiry and exposure of the UK Post Officer scandal and other similar outrages. The guy could not discuss these real conspiracies at all, could not put these in the same light as his fictional ones.
It seemed he was overwhelmed by a world out of his control and knowledge, felt a helpless victim to power and circumstance, and had withdrawn into what was a safe world of false conspiracy, one he could do nothing about but could be a part of something with others, knowing something no-one else knew, gaining some sort of power of his own through it, without any responsibility to the world of the real. Maybe even in complete denial of what he couldn't face.
This seemed such a poignant tale and sad in it roots. The guy wanted to shout out to all what he thought was wrong in the world, but only succeeded in hurting others and being rejected. This didn't seem at what he was after, not some internet troll, looking to hurt and upset then watch for vicarious pleasure before moving on to some other pasture green.

[Caveat]: This is to my best memory, and my memory isn't too good in certain ways. I couldn't reread this, I can't describe why, sorry, so instead I've provided the url so anyone else who cares to can compare my take on this with what's written and their own conclusion. ‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’: George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist

There is talk about conspiracy theories between me and friends at the autism charity drop-in and when I was at college too, there is also a Mel Gibson film I believe about conspiracy theories, I just saw this newspaper article about conspiracy theories on the metro newspaper website:-
link to metro story

I heard some people say that Hilary Clinton speaking about smashing the glass ceiling is a reference to the firmament here is a link to her speaking about it link

An intelligent and well educated fellow service user at the autism drop in where I used said that the reason more business are card only and why banks and ATMs are closing in the UK are the government wants a cashless society, I'm personally against a cashless society

Aspergers_Aspie said:

a cashless society

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Cash = a black economy to some degree, with some ppl not declaring all their income.
There is a lot of it going around.

Aspergers_Aspie said:

An intelligent and well educated fellow service user at the autism drop in where I used said that the reason more business are card only and why banks and ATMs are closing in the UK are the government wants a cashless society, I'm personally against a cashless society

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In some ways we've already moved to a cashless society. We've already tokenised cash money and disengaged the connection with a defined value based on some standard resource - used to be based on the value of gold and how much a country held of that value - remember the words (for brits) "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of one pound"?
This was in large text on the old notes, now it's almost unreadably small, and is a complete lie - I challenge anyone to go the Bank of England and ask for your one pound in gold! Succeed and I'll double that up for you!

Did you know that banks issue currency not the government? Deregulation of the finance industry has helped to give us what is now in effect (in the 'West' anyway) a corporate directed government where wealth now has more unelected power over government than voters ever had or have. The cashless society is a government bowing to commercial interests either deliberately or just as a consequence of allowing commerce to control too much of our society, whereby those with cash are harder to evaluate and commercially control, and commercial and bureaucratic control is the main basis of slavery nowadays.

One of the basis' of power these days is information, and a cash economy filters much of that information out before it hits a computer network. Much harder to count and assign to attributes such as who spent it, on what, and why. The fact that processing cash is expensive and less useful in generating profit making data, gives a government the excuse for diminishing the use of cash (small example - in my town, you now can no longer buy and use a residents parking permit to park in your own street, unless you are online - disgusting discrimination against minorities that goes unchallenged because commerce has indirectly drained most social provisioning of sufficient funding). If everyone has to go online, then tech firms and those using their services make much more money. Where does that money come from? Your pocket and mine.

Interestingly, in the UK at least, the current cost of living crisis (and a big thank you to the food industry for fuelling much of the inflation we've suffered) has caused a resurgence in the use of cash, I'm pleased to say.

Aspergers_Aspie said:

I heard some people say that Hilary Clinton speaking about smashing the glass ceiling is a reference to the firmament here is a link to her speaking about it link

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Meaning NASA are trying with rockets to crack the firmament

I know the movie 'the hunt' from 2020 would have conspiracy theorists wondering. I myself, am not necessarily a conspiracy theorist I just like to hear all sides. I know people broke into sections of hospitals to see if COVID patients existed and conspiracy theorists were wondering if all news reports from BBC, sky etc had always legitimate people rather than actors