06-05-2020, 06:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2020, 06:48 PM by Eric the Green.)
The United States of Conspiracy: Covering Coronavirus. Frontline podcast describes how conspiracy theory has taken over politics and the White House, and why. Quite accurate analysis.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/podca...conspiracy
The conspiracy theories about coronavirus bring the conspiracy theory pandemic to a head. Believing them now is deadly, because the necessary precautions are viewed as plots to take away our freedom, though media fear-mongering, a bioweapons plan, a vaccination plot, or the result of an accident by doctors. The whole history of conspiracy theories and how they arose is now focused on the set of theories about the virus.
Conspiracy theory arose from several factors. One, big events took place that really WERE the result of conspiracies, and were revealed to be such after being first dismissed as theories, like Watergate, the WMD not being in Iraq, Iran-Contra, etc. Second, big events that changed the world that we could not believe were caused by one outlaw or a small group or terrorists, like the JFK assassination, 9-11, and so on. Third, the rise of propagandists and entertainers who took advantage of these events to "connect the dots" for people and create an audience for theories that have become steadily more outrageous, and which have now taken over the White House. Fourth, the knowledge industry, including journalism, science and universities, becoming more distrusted and thought of as elitist expertise.
Now, everything that goes on is attributed to some secret, long-standing elite trying to take away our freedom and our guns and is furthering globalism and creating a totalitarian new world order. The trouble is, no-one knows who these secret elites are, and those who are blamed like George Soros and Bill Gates cannot be tried or jailed for their alleged crimes because there are no facts to back up the accusations against them. They are simply convenient characters in the story.
So what can the believers do about the new world order? Just not vote? Cry for a revolution? Not get themselves or their children vaccinated? Buy Alex Jones' supplements so you can arm your body for the debacle? Build a self-sufficient fort and go into hiding? Fill up council chambers and call for investigations based on no evidence?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/podca...conspiracy
The conspiracy theories about coronavirus bring the conspiracy theory pandemic to a head. Believing them now is deadly, because the necessary precautions are viewed as plots to take away our freedom, though media fear-mongering, a bioweapons plan, a vaccination plot, or the result of an accident by doctors. The whole history of conspiracy theories and how they arose is now focused on the set of theories about the virus.
Conspiracy theory arose from several factors. One, big events took place that really WERE the result of conspiracies, and were revealed to be such after being first dismissed as theories, like Watergate, the WMD not being in Iraq, Iran-Contra, etc. Second, big events that changed the world that we could not believe were caused by one outlaw or a small group or terrorists, like the JFK assassination, 9-11, and so on. Third, the rise of propagandists and entertainers who took advantage of these events to "connect the dots" for people and create an audience for theories that have become steadily more outrageous, and which have now taken over the White House. Fourth, the knowledge industry, including journalism, science and universities, becoming more distrusted and thought of as elitist expertise.
Now, everything that goes on is attributed to some secret, long-standing elite trying to take away our freedom and our guns and is furthering globalism and creating a totalitarian new world order. The trouble is, no-one knows who these secret elites are, and those who are blamed like George Soros and Bill Gates cannot be tried or jailed for their alleged crimes because there are no facts to back up the accusations against them. They are simply convenient characters in the story.
So what can the believers do about the new world order? Just not vote? Cry for a revolution? Not get themselves or their children vaccinated? Buy Alex Jones' supplements so you can arm your body for the debacle? Build a self-sufficient fort and go into hiding? Fill up council chambers and call for investigations based on no evidence?