10-11-2021, 06:52 PM
(10-03-2021, 11:28 AM)Diana Wrote: It's just so easy to dismiss "conspiracies," and those who promote them are part of humanity at this time which includes a lot of 3D mindsets immersed in the "maelstrom" and drama. But that does not negate the idea that there are agendas to control and manipulate populations. Whether this is based on greed or power or whatever, it exists. Pharmaceutical companies in collusion with allopathic medicine is just one overt example—keeping people ill and on drugs, and raking in the profits by doing so. I'm not trying to be negative here, just realistic.
It's a mistake to go by the topic, and that's what people both for and against "conspiracies" very often do on social media (which is real-world Idiocracy for the most part).
The problem with "conspiracy theories" is not that they are about conspiracies. There can be good thinking and theories about conspiracies. Rather, the outstanding characteristic which is associated with the label ("conspiracy theory", as opposed to theories about conspiracies) in a generalized way, is a loose, sloppy stream-of-associations way of arguing, which magnifies extremely weak circumstantial evidence and sees it as deciding all, ignoring all higher-quality types of evidence which go against the conclusions which the loose and emotionally-tangled web of associations point towards.
The absence of all the popular "conspiracy theory" leaves a picture very well-known in the mainstream: a picture of greed, incompetence, and PR battles for status and prestige often ending up more important in practice than doing things well and fulfilling responsibilities.
(10-03-2021, 11:28 AM)Diana Wrote: Loving humanity and 3D existence is one thing; trusting that governments (and the corporate entities tied to government or are just so huge they constitute significant control) have our best interests at heart is quite another.
Actually, those who primarily care for profit generally also care to have a functioning economy and workers who are alive rather than dead. Public health measures can in large part be understood as being motivated in that way. Even social democratic measures are based around an old conservative economic idea, namely that keeping the working class healthy and capable makes it possible to get more work out of them (meaning more profit). And originally, public education for the poor around the world has in large part been driven and financed for the benefit of industrialists.
This is a basic part of the picture of civilization as we know it, and it curiously seems to not be understood at all by those who believe in rumors of mass depopulation, or the government wanting to make people extra sick, etc. Those who believe such rumors have forgotten the very widely available knowledge of how rich, greedy, powerful people think and what they want.