Conspiracy theories are a noticeable part of modern culture. Modern culture is fertile ground for them. Besides conspiracy theories, which are political in nature in the example of the assassination of JFK or of recent memory, 9/11, there is the larger problem of the social order, itself, which surrounds us, in which we live and work; which for those in power has to be maintained at all costs.
In reality, our social order is an ever changing façade or, we might say, it is more like a well directed, non-stop Hollywood movie with many sets, actors, scripts, etc. But on what much of our social order structurally depends, which is the content of the deception, is built upon fictions, more or less. There are fictions of science such as ‘black holes’ and ‘string theory’ or that relatively cost-free and pollution-free energy is impossible. There are medical fictions, for example, that vaccinations work as claimed when in fact those who have been immunized are still getting the whooping cough (pertussis), measles and mumps, etc. Physicians, themselves, are perhaps the greatest fictional characters. Iatrogenic deaths continue at an astonishing rate. The same fictions occur in archeology and anthropology. Man, as a species, is not 100,000 years old or even 200,000. He has existed on the earth for hundreds of millions of years! There are many more examples of modern fictions.
When it comes to religion in general it, too, is like a Hollywood movie, its script surprisingly is the same for all religions, a script of humanism which excludes mystical or esoteric considerations; which, instead, teaches that the pursuit of ordinary human interests and passions is religious when it is ethical and directed towards well-being. In this regard, it makes hardly any difference if you are a Buddhist or a Christian, you’ll get the same unsatisfying, nutritionless can of religious soda to drink. Only the labels are different.
One is not surprised by this; yet it is plausibly a betrayal of man’s deeper, spiritual side. Just listen to Krista Tippett's radio program Speaking of Faith which is distributed by NPR. It is not hearty spiritual food for the spiritually hungry. It only serves to defy what humans can be spiritually if they really work at it. The religiousness Tippet sells has been carefully banalized. Tippett understands this when she says that,
“what most Americans want, whether they are religious or not, is for the religious voice in our public life to be more constructive — to reflect the capacity religion has to nourish lives and communities.”
But this is suggesting that Americans don’t know exactly what religion is or what it is supposed to do for them, but whatever religion is, it should be made thoughtless and shallow, lest anyone decide to engage with the transcendent; seeking it where the herd does not graze!
Leaving religion at the level of humanism so that it can be easily banalized is a dangerous thing to do. Nevertheless, this is what is going on—and has been going on for quite some time. The present social order wants religion to be nice, and supportive of it, avoiding any urge to condemn it a materialistic and degenerate. It doesn’t mind the fact that the bulk of religious ministers are money grubbing capitalists who are always thinking of new ways to fleece their flocks for all they can get.
Conspiracy theories are difficult to solve, but it is not too difficult to see that the present social order with its great mouthpiece, the MSM (main stream media) has all the depth and content of a cheap Hollywood B-movie. Data is easy to come by which proves that those in charge of our present social order are mediocre minds who could not care less about improving things. Least of all do they care about the soul of man. After all man is made of matter and matter is dead which is another fiction.
from Wikipedia: "The Paluxy River is a river in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a tributary of the Brazos River. It is formed by the convergence of the North Paluxy River and the South Paluxy River near Bluff Dale, Texas in Erath County and flows a distance of 29 miles (47 km) before joining the Brazos just to the east of Glen Rose, Texas in south central Somervell County.[1]
It is best known for numerous dinosaur footprints found in its bed near Glen Rose at the Dinosaur Valley State Park. The Paluxy River became famous for controversy in the early 1930s when locals found dinosaur and supposed human footprints in the same rock layer in the Glen Rose Formation, which were widely publicized as evidence against the geological time scale and in favor of young-Earth creationism. However, these anachronistic "human" footprints have been determined to be mistaken interpretation and even some outright fakes.[2] The family of the original man, George Adams, who made the claims, later admitted it was a hoax.[3] "My grandfather was a very good sculptor," said Zana Douglas, from the Adams family who found many of Glen Rose’s real dinosaur tracks.[3] She explained that in the 1930s and the Depression, Glen Rose residents made money by making moonshine and selling dinosaur fossils.[3] The fossils were bought for $15 to $30 and when the supply ran low, George Adams, Zana's grandfather, "just carved more, some with human footprints thrown in."[3]"
Posted by: Bob Morris | July 20, 2011 at 03:37 PM
"Man, as a species, is not 100,000 years old or even 200,000. He has existed on the earth for hundreds of millions of years! " Really?
Posted by: Bob Morris | July 20, 2011 at 03:18 PM
Some interesting links:
http://zennist.typepad.com/zenfiles/2009/02/the-psychopath-and-the-icchantika.html
http://www.davidicke.com/
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
Isn't the term'Conspiracy Theory' an invention of the MSM to encourage"Condemnation without investigation.. [which]..is the height of ignorance"(Albert Einstein)
Posted by: WuWeiTV (youtube) | October 05, 2010 at 05:27 PM