=============================================================================== 009-conspiracy.txt =============================================================================== Ever wonder how much the shit you took in as a younger person influenced your whole deal? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This was a thought which occurred recently – so we decided to have a look into it. Take a snack from the bite sized book of bloody weird things. We purchased via the medium of the bay of evil and then went through a batch of conspiracy and new age magazines from the 1990s and the first thing we realised is that this shitty brand of content has become so much more sophisticated in the last 30 years. The second terrifying thing we realised is that 90% of what we were reading was now “mainstream”. This ill-conceived nonsense somehow become the template. That’s right, what was considered trash reading for the lunatic fringe in 1997 is now considered “a day in the timeline of a Facebook normie” in 2020. How the fuck we let that happen is probably the gateway to the biggest conspiracy of them all conveniently never covered in any of these magazines. The pages of these rags are filled with proto anti-vax hysteria, X-files inspired EBE encounters, sightings and theories, the familiar (even in the 90s and already largely washed up) “aliens built the pyramids” narrative, the ol’ “what is going on with the weather” vector, all lightly sprinkled with a fear of the loss of privacy which we see at this point didn’t go nearly far enough, and didn’t cause nearly enough fear (when it should have been the lone red flag we actually paid attention to but was skilfully watered down; peddled alongside utter shite). Fnord. Why would it have raised it’s hard to understand head above the water? Who of the serious kooks let along the mainstream would have foreseen that we’d give it all up for free porn and addictive but valueless user experiences (a term which would have been as alien to your average 90s reader as the imagined chimerical sci-fi myth version of EBEs they want so much to have constructed the pyramids such is their insecurity about the potential of their own species, usually based on their own lack of success; “I can’t even wash my underwear, how could someone possibly build the Sphinx!?”). Besides, people who were worried about digital privacy in the 90s were routinely excluded from parties, and laughed out of university lecture halls! Yeah reader, the memory still hurts. I digress… Very little in these magazines alludes to the past (very little references the proceeding thousands of years of folklore and occultism in which much of its mythos has its real roots) – it is all future facing, leaping into the unknown, the exciting prospect of times so different from the now, despite the core of many of the thoughts within the articles and topics having been first ejaculated into popular culture decades before. The programme serves to keep people looking into the future anxious of change and dystopia they see at the end of every single path – inevitable (which would be amusing, were it not so accurate based on the mainstream view of the world as is today – evidence of a construct? You can decide. I’m not your mother or your lecturer). And there, right there is perhaps the take away from this exercise. I’m not your mother. No… We as a society NEED to look back and what the "kooks" were saying in the past in order to understand what happens in the now, we need to not rely on the mainstream to tell us what happened in history (written by the winners, celebrated by their progeny) - look to the fringes and you’ll see less has changed than you think. Go back thousands of years and the human condition still prioritises the same core-fears and these are exploited consistency in the same ways by the same type of people. If you need a devil to hate, an adversary to function; there it is. These people. The digital nightmare we exist in now represents technological alteration in the speed and method of delivery; but not the overall agenda which remains a constant, and one that is either controlled to a degree that makes it unstoppable (so let’s just party on) or one that backs up what Alan Moore once said (and we paraphrase)… The truth has always been more frightening that any conspiracy. The truth is no one is driving and this is all just absolute fucking chaos. So did this shit influence our deal? Only as the menu. The main course of real earned knowledge filled the gap. Go order from the big boy menu. Get stuck in. =============================================================================== EOF