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originally posted by: Kakamega
As our world has gone global so has conspiracy theory. I have for many years read posts on forums, in comments sections, on alternative websites and blogs from all over the world related to its increasing manifestation. It is as global as finance is.
There appears to be an emerging mainstream of conspiracy theory, certain traits that many are building into their own collective illusion. It could manifest politically and it will be as multinational as its hosts. If it manifests as a collective political perspective and begins to influence votes it will be exploited politically by extreme elements ever increasingly. Trump has shown the beginnings of that as an early warning to the Western world. This particular strain of mass collective conspiracy identity is verging on extreme right wing. It has fascist elements in its nature. It shows traits of anti-feminism, racist, antisemitism ( financially in the extreme) behaviour. It has become a weapon and unconsciously deployed as indoctrination fuelled behaviour to cult extremes.
It is a great delusion. It is an illusion based upon unproven, unjudged, non evident, unvetted whispers. Most "believers" are willing to entertain the most extreme illusions as explanations and answers to how reality is being perceived by them. It is peer influenced and perpetuated as a kind of mass hysteria response. Evidence and primary/secondary sources as used academically have been completely bypassed. It has corrupted academia and hijacked it as thoroughly as Russian misinformation deliberately sabotages Western academia asa a tactic of psychological warfare. It is being deployed by some secret services of states against competing states. It is nothing new. What is new is its distortion of reality on a global level with global independent media resources via the Web at its disposal that are easily infiltrated and tactically exploited as Assange by Russia intelligence.
It is indeed more easily executable now than ever for a state to play on prejudices in another state and to inject misniformation as a strategy and manifest a herd political response counter to offical media and political objectives. It even has more credibility as all trust in official media is being lost. It is well funded too. Suggestion works better than evidence to influence. They want to believe and are open boxes for whatever goods any influencer wishes to place in them to fuel prejudice and to justify it as some kind of righteous moral and political belief and behaviour. How similar this is to the former Third Reich's ideology that exploited hate and prejudice so surgically and effectively. Often consipracy theory ideology is deployed to destroy the credibility of financial, business,political , health and other sensitive areas of social structure. It is weakening and chips away relentlessly at the monuments of Western freedom and civilization.
For many members of this conspiracy cult it is a way of clawing back some control over their lives from media and state as an alternative divergent unreality. They have been too challenged to change behaviour beyond what they can cope with by the authorities. It is being used as a peception weapon generally. It is being used as a political rallying tool. It is being used to make money in lay-media too. It is as much a virus as Covid. It is a virus of the human psyche born out of the abandonment of the masses' welfare and security and emphasis on capital generation at human welfare's expense.
The concerning factor is that it could manifest eventually as a political force that takes undemocratic control as happeneed in Hitler's fascist Germany. Unfortunately people can be maniplulated like this targeting their prejudices and weaponizing them politically. It is an ever present human weakness through every generation. It is never completely eradicated as it manifests as a response each time the masses are exploited to the point that it begins to destroy them. Backlashes can be deadly even to holocaust extremes.
It is a wide open wound. It was created out of abandonment. The West has made too many orphams out of its extreme capatalist approach. Conspiracy theory has the potential to utterly destroy should it become useful enough as a tool to gain political victory in any state of the world. Trump and other populists have proved that political capital can be made out of it. He is using it right now in his authored illusion about voter fraud to great effect. How close they come to even betraying democracy and distorting reality for political gain because of prejudice, distrust and a hatred of the usual authorities who exploited them and abandoned them to the point that the bottom of the bucket fell out before reaching the well. It was Bob Marley who said,
"Reflexes got the better of me
And what is to be must be
Every day the bucket goes to the well
But one day the bottom will drop out
Yes, one day the bottom will drop out"
(Bob Marley "I Shot The Sheriff").
They are shooting the sheriff indeed. Consipracy theory is the automatic weapon as widely distributed as a Kalashnikov rifle among the masses of even the Western world. It is the "price tag" and back chat, the backlash reaction. There is a great big hole in the bucket.
I am not a conspiracy theorist. I do however believe that powerful people exploit us and conspiracies do happen when people commit crimes. The exploitation and abandonment of the West by their authorities is a huge crime. To exploit populations to the point where they are just batteries of profit and not even rechargable ones is the worst crime ever commited and it is global in scale. If a billionaire is not concerned with the tools of his wealth extraction and does not keep them sharp and care for them they will be beaten from plowshares into swords to use eventually on him by the hands of his competition and enemies.
Who is awake enough to address this present problem of trust and the shortcomings of global capitalism? The West could easily die from this virus, much worse pandemic than Covid will ever be. The Conspiracy Virus has found a very potent ally in Covid too. Even Covid has been used as consipracy capital.