Conspiracy Nut?

The danger of writing about things like secret societies, Masons, Priory de Sion, Knight's Templar, The Holy Grail, The JFK Assassination, Princess Diana, a New World Order, and even the events now known as "911" is that you risk being labeled a "conspiracy theorist" which is apparently a bad thing.....

In other words, if you choose not to believe everything you are told, or if you question things, without saying whether you believe or not, your credibility can be severely scratched by someone quickly saying you are a conspiracy nut, meaning you are crazy, perhaps paranoid, and even maybe a little silly. In part that is because there are those among us who do come across as a little wacky....let's face it, not every arguement for a conspiracy is founded in much other than opinion, and that isn't always well thought out.  But...if we dismiss everyone who chooses to investigate what they are told, to not accept everything at face value, well, we would be dismissing most everyone with a university education. If nothing else, a university degree teaches the student to question the common truth, to ask questions, and to hold tight to some skeptical thought rather than taking everything on blind faith.

But we don't usually label university students, professors and grads as conspiracy theorists, or conspiracy nuts....

However, it is those ideas that tend to ruin what credibility we have, and those ideas that make the truth even harder to find. If people opened their minds to the ideas that not everything is as it seems, and that life is far more complicated that some would believe, some of our theories would be studied a little closer, and who knows what answers would be found.

I think it safe to say that everyone knows that John F Kennedy was assassinated, not by a lone gunman, but by a group of high ranking people who wanted him gone, it's taken close to 50 years for that to be accepted by it is gaining acceptance everyday. The same holds for Unidentifed Flying Objects, hundreds, no thousands of people have witnessed UFO's. Many of them very credible witnesses, but yet, if asked, the official line is that UFO's don't exist and those witnesses were mistaken. Anyone who suggests that the UFO phenonenom is a conspiracy, covered up by government, others are quick to say that person is crazy, and at best, a conspiracy nut., perhaps even a paranoid conspiracy nut.

I was reading some discussion posts today on Amazon and among them was a post about One of the folks posting offered this bit of advice, and I have to admit, it is very true. He said,

whether or not conspiracy theorists are paranoid.

 Basically there are 3 types of 'conspiracy theorists': (my comments in italics)

1. Those who truly believe there is a conspiracy and want the truth acknowledged. These are detectives. The general public would rather not believe them. e.g. people deny that there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK regardless of what the detectives uncover.

2. Those who are actually deflecting and giving misleading information in order to keep the truth covered up through confusion and brainwashing. These are propagandists/co-conspirators. The general public would rather believe them. e.g. Priory de Sion, does it or doesn't this mysterious group even exist, one minute they are telling us of their existance, the next they deny it. Our governments are good at this, as given a choice, most want to believe that their government has their best interests in mind.

3. The paranoid and 'schizo's'. These are crazies. Only the like minded believe them. e.g. Those who claim to have been abducted by UFO's often only believed by others claiming the same thing happened to them. The rest of us tend to discount the stories, refusing to believe the possibility it is true.

I think this is as accurate a picture as there is, three types of persons interested in conspiracy theories.  One of whom is probably the one  who would like us to remain in the dark about such things, not unlike the Dark Ages when only the religious leaders and some scientists and rulers were allowed knowledge, and they controlled what the masses knew. I don't believe things much different today. Yes, thanks in part to the internet, the general public has access to more information, some of it true, but as a rule, we have no way of separating fact from fiction, and if we come close, something is released to throw us off, a red herring, as this is called, a distraction. So, for example, if I hit upon a theory that is close, someone else may put up a site refuting mine, and suggesting the real answer is their answer. Enough of these websites and no one will ever figure out what is credible and what isn't. Of course those who don't want us to know, love the sheer number of sites, books and theories, knowing that the volume hides the truth better than denial.

Sometimes, the red herring can be true, but so wild it is hard to believe, and usually does it's job of confusing those who might be interested. In magic, it is called obfuscation, or something which  means that while you are looking at one hand,  the magician is doing something with the other. The slight of hand is not happening in the hand you are watching, it is happening in the hand you aren't watching, the hand that is seemingly not doing anything. ( Wilkipedia defines obfuscation as the concealment of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, intentionally ambiguous, and more difficult to interpret.) The same is true for our esoteric mysteries, so much information, that all of it tends to confuse and mislead the investigator, often leading him or her down the opposite path from the truth. Sometimes this is very daring, as the obfuscator, will actually tell the truth, knowing the investigator is so confused by the multitude of information, he no longer knows what to believe. I think this is what is happening now, with so many books and movies about conspiracies and the holy grail etc, people are being exposed to so many theories and stories, they cannot fathom the facts from fiction.

What all this means is that when someone starts to get close, like the JFK Conspiracy for example, "new" information is suddenly found, that distracts the investigator. Sometimes that information is true, but it is information that won't help, but will instead, confuse. It may take the investigator down another road, one that leads away from the truth. Ask anyone who has spent time investigating the ancient mysteries, or even more recent ones like Oak Island for instance. The ideas and theories that abound as to the whereabouts and description of the treasure are so vast and varied, no one is sure of what is fact and what is fiction. Almost like when the searchers come close, a sudden tunnel opens, flooding their dig, something unexpected that has to be dealt with, but so often takes the searcher away from their original dig.

History is full of these types of obfuscation, history texts differ on dates, names, events, depending on who is telling the history, and who is reading it. Mysterious societies are the same. Someone closes in on the Priory de Sion, and suddenly another book appears, with a different history, or a different theory, sometimes one that is more plausible and perhaps more truthful, without actually providing the truth. But the deed is done, the mission a success, the investigators then go off trying to validate the new information, often losing sight of their original findings. And if all else fails, and the person(s) get too close, something happens to discredit the person, and their theory becomes that of a paranoid, crazy person.

This is the stuff that makes this work so difficult, so hard to trace, so hard to prove. Back to Oak Island for a minute, one treasure hunter discovers something, and is perhaps on the verge of making a major discovery, suddenly, another party starts digging somewhere else, trying to convince anyone that will listen that they are in the right place. Even the clues that are found, like the stone tablet that was supposedly found indicating a treasure lay some distance beneath it. Really? Or was that stone put there to keep someone busy digging in that spot, digging for nothing, while the real treasure lies somewhere else.  Typical magic, obfuscation, you look over here, while I do my magic over here......

As my header quote says, "Wherever there is fiction, there is some truth." Meaning sometimes we know more than we realize, but we don't believe it, and therefore dismiss much of it. Often the real truth is dismissed quickly as the investigator goes off in the wrong direction.