Saw this on the front page of MSN, what do you guys think?
http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=4&...0b4730c28a
http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=4&...0b4730c28a
Quote: (05-02-2013 09:33 AM)Donnington93 Wrote:
My favorite take on conspiracy theories.
I always ask myself, if there is such a well-engineered conspiracy designed to shape world events, why has some guy on an internet message board managed to figure it out? I think there has to be a certain malignant narcissism in believing that you've outsmarted the aggregate resources of whatever overarching World Zionist Freemason Bilderberg conspiracy that you are calling out as the perpetrator of (insert tragic event here)
Quote: (05-02-2013 09:33 AM)Donnington93 Wrote:
My favorite take on conspiracy theories.
I always ask myself, if there is such a well-engineered conspiracy designed to shape world events, why has some guy on an internet message board managed to figure it out? I think there has to be a certain malignant narcissism in believing that you've outsmarted the aggregate resources of whatever overarching World Zionist Freemason Bilderberg conspiracy that you are calling out as the perpetrator of (insert tragic event here)
Quote: (05-02-2013 10:03 AM)rudebwoy Wrote:
The facts clearly show we as people are being screwed and it is not getting any better.
The Money Powers are real and have a perverted view on how we should live, call it a conspiracy if you like.
Quote: (05-02-2013 10:03 AM)rudebwoy Wrote:
The facts clearly show we as people are being screwed and it is not getting any better.
The Money Powers are real and have a perverted view on how we should live, call it a conspiracy if you like.
Quote: (05-02-2013 10:03 AM)rudebwoy Wrote:
The facts clearly show we as people are being screwed and it is not getting any better.
The Money Powers are real and have a perverted view on how we should live, call it a conspiracy if you like.
Quote: (05-02-2013 11:25 AM)Kingsley Davis Wrote:
Quote: (05-02-2013 10:03 AM)rudebwoy Wrote:
The facts clearly show we as people are being screwed and it is not getting any better.
The Money Powers are real and have a perverted view on how we should live, call it a conspiracy if you like.
The RVF members are real and have a red pilled view on how we should live, call it reality if you like.
Quote: (05-02-2013 10:15 AM)iknowexactly Wrote:
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, it's been that way since the first amoeba ate another, and it will never change, even in a billion years.
Quote: (05-02-2013 10:15 AM)iknowexactly Wrote:
Quote: (05-02-2013 10:03 AM)rudebwoy Wrote:
The facts clearly show we as people are being screwed and it is not getting any better.
The Money Powers are real and have a perverted view on how we should live, call it a conspiracy if you like.
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, it's been that way since the first amoeba ate another, and it will never change, even in a billion years.
The exception being times of great upheaval like the French and Russian revolutions. The problem is, when you hope for one of these "black swans" , you're wishing for a level of upheaval so great that even the poor are worse off for a while.
A line from a Badfinger song "There's no real revolutions, just power changing hands" sums it up. It's why I'm philosophically an anarchist, but pragmatically I think government is needed, unless you want your workplace to be like that thug's building that killed 300 people in Bangladesh. There's the so-called "free market" at work. The owner intimidated landowners and forged deeds to get his literal robber-baron empire going.
But there is one conspiracy that's real, that underlies all the anxiety that is masked by people focusing on the business/social ones:
the conspiracy by your telemeres and genes to deteriorate and for you to age and die.
It's definitely happening right now if you're over eight or so I guess.
It's going to kill you and everyone you know, and you will be totally forgotten unless you create some epic work like Ulysses or the like.
Unless you want to be a crusader for the unjustly persecuted ( like the people working in those shithole buildings) why worry about the one that's a "maybe" when you have a conspiracy that's totally, totally, fatal, inescapable, and real?
But to be honest, I never met a conspiracy theory I didn't like. The more addled, frankly unlikely and bizarre the better. They say a lot about the holders. Some are real if unbelievable at first-- the US government dealing drugs to buy arms for the Contras?!