Conspiracy and Control
You know, most of my life, I've been terribly
keen on the notions of conspiracy and coordinated manipulation, from
Masons to the Illuminati to the Bilderberg to CFR. It is easy to
suspect that a cadre of evil powermongers somehow "wants" control
over the rest of us. But then one must ask the question, "Why?"
Control "us" to what end? So we'll give them our money? Hell,
transnational corporations already "control" that. Oil, banking,
insurance, health, military-industrials all have more money than
God. So "they" are winning (or have won) that front.
And it's a masterful ploy, because it looks like
business and so the Right naturally, historically defends it.
Or is control so we'll behave? Again, bread & circuses and amusing
ourselves to death seem to have that pretty well under "control".
But that's really just another version of greed: watch this, and buy
this. And why is this control so easy? Because the vast majority,
whether they call themselves conservative, liberal, or Sneetches,
have abrogated the responsibility to think in favor of sound-bites
and talking heads and pundits.
But really, those motives at least have some causality: greed,
money, profit. Do you seriously think "foreign religious law" (you
can only mean Islam) has a snowball's chance in hell of overwhelming
Christianity in this country? Do you seriously think any person or
group has the power to pull that off? So what are we being
controlled FOR? That's where the conspiracies generally grind to a
halt: They need to produce a legitimate REASONs combined with
coordinated mechanisms: real people who really meet and
consciously plan the pathways to these goals.
What we almost certainly have are different viewpoints of what real,
positively-oriented individuals hold w.r.t. how to solve
our problems and deal with a world that contains 7 billion or so
people, expiring energy reserves, a changing climate, famine,
disease, etc. I do not believe there is a cadre whose sole aim is to
extinguish all this; there are people who differ (widely,
admittedly) on the proper way of fixing all this. And
juxtaposed against them stand the ultra-greedy and rapacious, who
have never wanted anything except to exploit all this. They've done
their job magnificently, and managed to divide the good guys into
warring camps who glare suspiciously across the barbed wire at each
other. Too bad we can't turn and level our glares at them.
© 2010 Chuck Puckett