Conspiracy Theories

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Conspiracy theory is 99% noise/disinfo and 1% honest investigations. More than anything, it involves avoiding the obvious rabbit holes, like chemtrails and “we never landed on the moon.” These rabbit holes are the chaff and flares ejected from a jet to fool any heat-seeking missiles on its tail. Real researchers are the missiles and the jet, well, the jet’s are the real story researchers are seeking to uncover. An if there weren’t real conspiracies, there wouldn’t be a need for creating all these false trails to nowhere you see on TV.

Separating the wheat from the chaff in a world full of signals is always a difficult effort. The prey uses all kinds of camouflage, the hunter uses filters and correlation. Watch for a movement that doesn’t fit.

As I said in The Ineptness Of Our Overlords:

The thing that is clear to our overlords is that I have no secrets in the Internet Age. What is not yet clear to them is that neither do they. Any action on the secrets they hold is a reveal. So their knowledge is of limited value or useless. Counterproductive even.

Of what use is a self destruct button? I’m not a Christian. At all. But the best advice I can give them is, “Go in peace.” If you need to own something try owning yourself. Because that is an infinitely harder job than owning a civilization. And infinitely more worthwhile.


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8 responses to “Conspiracy Theories”

  1. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    See Mae Brussel or Paul Krassner about the Kennedy assassination.

    Personally I think Jackie did it. She was thoroughly fed up with his cheating. The missing frame from the Zapruder film shows her pulling a .38 out of her purse.

  2. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Here’s a real one:
    https://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-valley/

    Long but worthwhile history of postwar electronics, Frederick Terman, Stanford EE department, OSS/CIA, Watkins Johnson and a vast chorus line of $$$$$.

  3. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    The apartment bombings in Moscow just before Putin’s rise and the destruction of Chechnya. I can’t find a singe good source, but strong evidence the FSB (the thuggish spy agency formerly known as KGB) did it.

  4. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Mostly I tend to think far reaching conspiracies tend to leak. They’re too complicated and depend on too any people. The evidence should be clear. Unless the conspiracy is so far reaching in encompasses everything.

    Or, it’s just that the vast majority is too lost in the spectacle to notice.

    http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/ideas/bookclub/situationist.html

  5. Simon Avatar

    Re: Silicon Valley. I lived in the Bay Area in the early years. ’68 to ’70.

    The whole Bay Area was consumed with sex and drugs at the time.

    I had a National Semiconductor Engineer as a friend. His name is lost to the sands of time. We used to hang out and discuss transistors. And other things.

  6. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    And I lived there 2000 – 2003. I got to see it wind down after 9/11 and the dot com bust.

  7. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Terman was great. I spent years going to every used bookstore I could find (way pre internet) trying to find a copy of the Radio Engineer’s Handbook. Suddenly found three within a few weeks. In places I’d been to before. Spooky.

  8. Simon Avatar

    Never read Terman. I probably should.