I want to be clear at the outset that I’m not asserting anything here, just making some observations. Let I have to deal with the comment section going “hur hur you think there’s a conspirserary.”
But, consider.
The Bigfoots and Loch Ness Monsters, the alien abductions and crop circles, the shadowy men on a shadowy planet lurking in the shadows doing shadowy things and who knows what shadowy evil lurks in their shadowy hearts why The Shadow knows…do you ever wonder how that stuff helps invalidate and discredit legitimate information, like some of the things we talked about earlier?
Because when you lump “giving black people free syphilis” and “literally selling weapons to both sides of a war and illegally in both cases at that” in with the chupacabra and the Jersey Devil, it becomes pretty easy to dismiss that stuff, doesn’t it? People right now think the coronavirus is a conspiracy. Most people – especially most white people – don’t realize that whole “CIA created the crack epidemic” thing is legit and proven, and at least one journalist was probably murdered for proving it.
Is it reasonable to assert that there are people out there deliberately keeping us distracted with nonsense and goofiness to both discredit genuine and well-founded concerns about abuses of power and to occupy our minds and keep us distracted from the “real enemy?” Probably not; there’s no evidence of it except the results. And, as one of my heroes George Carlin pointed out, it doesn’t require a formal, organized, overt conspiracy for people of like interests, like backgrounds, like social connections, and so forth to come to similar conclusions about the best way to protect those interests at the expense of others.
But isn’t it kind of funny we still think of the FBI infiltrating student groups, alien butt probes, the burning of the Koresh compound, Bigfoot, the MOVE bombing, Batboy, and the murder of Fred Hampton all in the same kind of general basket?
More to the point, isn’t it kind of funny that we don’t notice this more, talk about it more? And that’s what brings us to the last part of this conversation
