Wild Minds Weekly: Conspiracy theories

Hello beautiful people,

You've probably been called a conspiracy theorist at least once in your life. 

Maybe that's a good thing.

The label ‘conspiracy theorist’ is used to discredit and belittle anyone questioning the mainstream narrative. 

What does that actually mean? What is a conspiracy theory?

While there’s loads of ways to define it, the key concept is that it’s an explanation for certain circumstances that revolves around the secret planning of a powerful group of people. 

So basically if you’re skeptical that large groups of powerful people are acting to further their own interests rather than yours, you could fall into the category of “conspiracy theorist”. 

It is true that not all of yesterday’s conspiracies become today’s facts…

and some of them are pretty out there…

(I personally believe the Earth is round and that it’s unlikely that there is a class of lizard people that rule the planet)

But imagine thinking that powerful groups didn’t conspire to further their own agendas.

Is that realistic? 

It would almost be naive to think that they don’t. 

There are plenty of cases of ideas that were discarded as conspiracy theories and later turned out to be true (MK-Ultra, The Fluorescent Particle Trials)

So secretive government agencies ran harmful projects in the past, dismissed them as conspiracy theories, and we’re supposed to believe that they just don’t anymore. That doesn’t seem very reasonable does it?

If a healthy dose of skepticism makes you a conspiracy theorist, then by all means, be one. 

To your freedom and independence,

Rob

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