So … no space aliens arrived to eat us then?
That means my entire article (here) was wrong. You have to admit that it’s unusual for me to get anything wrong. Heck, checking back five or ten years and my witterings normally get dismissed by people at the time, but later prove to come true. I can’t help being a future truth detective.
But on this space alien thing, I fear I was caught up in the euphoria of paranoia that infests modern thinking. Why are we doing that at the moment?
Actually it’s not just modern thinking is it? Collective paranoia and conspiracy theories seem to have plagued humanity since humanity started the process of ‘thinking’.
Why do people need or want to believe all is not what it seems? Is it because the simplicity and reality of life consisting of nothing much more than we can see and experience, is a tad disappointing? Heck, the sun is just a stroboscopic pulse running in extreme slo-mo from our perspective, and we are but a micro-blip that lives and then is gone forever.
We aren’t too good at handling all this mortality malarkey, which is why we invent stories of ‘things’ that are to come ‘after life’. It’s a lot warmer to believe in continuance than the coldness of oblivion, regardless of how completely irrational and illogical the ‘mechanics’ of that continuance might be.
Not being content with what comes after, we tried to rationalise how we got here and what it all means. The answer, the truthful answer, of ‘Dunno’ is of course unacceptable. Humans want to know and they want to know now. If there are things we don’t know or are not yet capable of understanding, we make up stories that explain it all away in simplistic terms.
This is why and how we invented gods and mystical forces to fear and worship in our ignorance, or assumed we had mystical powers following the invoking of rituals and incantations.
Conveniently, our tribal fears of all the mumbo jumbo can be used by the more astute and ambitious to help ‘rule’ and apply their ‘rules’ over us, in the name of all the mumbo jumbo. This takes the telling of a child to get into bed lest the boogie man that lives under it get him, to an adult level. We are fodder for the belief in mystical forces. Fear of the unknown and the supernatural makes people’s minds extremely pliable. Religion and belief systems handed down and enforced by parents keep the next generation subjagated as the generations that went before them.
Those manipulating the ‘religion’ are in control, and minds are not allowed to evolve and investigate to work things out. The minds are tethered to any behaviour demanded by the humans who pretend they are speaking on behalf of the mystical forces that must be obeyed.
The bright news is that minds are becoming freed from religion, in the Western world at least. But this freedom comes with confusion as to what to ‘replace’ previously installed beliefs with. As they search for something, plus discovering that all is not what it seems with regard to what they were forced to believe from birth, they latch onto conspiracy theories and new fears. This will continue until all the mumbo jumbo is finally put to rest.
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I do not think people latch on to conspiracy theories because they have lost their `mystical` or religious beliefs. If you are familiar with children you will know how easily they dwell in wishful thinking and magic. Some adults grow out of this way of thinking better than others. As for humanity itself, it is still struggling to grow up.
No, it is people who start to think for themselves who begin to doubt the accepted wisdom and the messages being put out in the mainstream. Examine these messages and you will find contradictions galore. It becomes obvious that our political leaders are not always honest with us. After all, they have their own vested interests.
Using the words `conspiracy theoriest` as a term of abuse is falling into the trap. It`s a way of saying: Don`t think. Don`t question. Don`t see.
I say there is nothing wrong with a healthy scepticism.
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