I will certainly feel less confident ridiculing conspiracy theories.

I’d never believe Bill Gates would secretly slip antibiotics into his wife’s cocktail to treat an STI he got from a Russian prostitute on convicted pedophile estate.

But here we are.

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MadnessASAP 22 days ago | parent | next [-]

I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere.

Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the bus goes off a cliff because the driver sold the steering wheel everybody dies.

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hsuduebc2 21 days ago | parent | next [-]

Absolutely. It’s not some grand replacement theory. It’s not an intellectual master plan. It’s mostly plain greed and cynicism from the powerful, plus ignorance or a resigned belief that people cannot be changed from everyone else.

I’m in the second group. When a majority of people miss the basics, when a large chunk treat internet content as daily reality rather than algorithmically served rage bait, it feels like there’s nothing you can do.

A friend once told me, “I wish I were more schizo like before, it was much more fun,” and in a bleak way, I get it. I’d almost prefer it if there really were a coherent plan, some deliberate attempt by the mighty to steer civilization. But right now it mostly looks like greed and cynicism. These days, a lot of it seems to be coming out of Silicon Valley but it will change as it always does like it did before.

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direwolf20 22 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America.

Epstein was trying to remove tax on banker bonuses in the UK for some reason.

There might not be a single master plan but holy hell is this stuff intertwined with everything that happens.

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hsuduebc2 21 days ago | parent [-]

Schizos would be schizos anywhere else. Widely available access to information which are biased towards your own bias mostly did that. Most of the people don't understand technology in general nor the algoritmic content suggestion. That is what the real problem is.

	▲	balamatom 20 days ago \| parent [-]
		>Schizos would be schizos anywhere else. May I introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia >Most of the people don't understand technology in general nor the algoritmic content suggestion. That is what the real problem is. There isn't a common understanding of these mechanisms, because the first thing they were used for, was to brand as "defective" anyone pursuing such understanding on their own terms. Of course you could always do it by the book i.e. go in blind and debt-enslave yourself until loss of capacity for disentanglement. A small number of such functionaries are indeed required to maintain a colony; and then some surplus ones to keep the first one in their place. Is that a "conspiracy"? In the sense that you're stuck breathing in sync with a lot of strangers, sure. In the sense of secret master plan? Nah bruh, it's all been out in the open all along. Just mindkillingly terrifying to most of yall. Hence all the phatics.

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balamatom 21 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories.

Username checks out... well, I can help ya.

You start out easy, like "who invented all those damn conspiracy theories and introduced them into the public culture, anyway?"

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direwolf20 22 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Epstein was involved in a UK corruption plot to reduce taxes on banker's bonuses. He was involved with insider trading around 9/11. This net is far reaching.

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s5300 22 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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