posted 12-06-2000 04:27 PM            

By Bob Lee

Conspiracy. It is a fact of life.

You conspire. You conspire with your co-workers, your spouse, your children, and your friends. No, you probably don't call it conspiracy; you call it "office politics," or "a family matter," or you say "don't tell daddy."

Nevertheless, conspiracy is a fact of life. It is an American tradition, and a world enigma. It is to be found at the foundation of our national monuments, and within the cloistered halls of our institutions. To believe otherwise is pure illusion.

However, when the subject is studied in earnest, those who do so are often maligned, chided, belittled, and ignored. They are considered kooks and extremists.

But, what is the opposite of conspiracy theory?

Reality theory.

Like so many brainless spiders, they create their web of comfort and safety. They spin their web and connect to only those things that seem stable and "real." They conditionally interpret life based on a set of tangibilities that are spoon fed and reinforced by society and the corporate media shills. They never dig deeper nor do they ask fundamental questions of those who "feed" them. They create their own reality. They engage themselves in "reality theory."

Some of us do dig deeper, however. Some of us ask questions - lots of them. Unfortunately, we seldom get complete answers, and often we must question the validity of the answers we get. And often the question is answered by another question.

Unlike the reality theorists, however, we continue to ask, and ask, and ask again. We are never satisfied until we reach the point where the answers begin to make sense. Or at least, until the questions themselves become revealing enough to satisfy the larger question at hand.

This process of inquisition produces a number of benefits. The most obvious of which is the accumulation of knowledge and the ability to ascertain truth from fiction, and wrong from right.

The less obvious benefit of such inquisitiveness is the humbling effect upon the questioner. We begin to realize just how much we don't know, which of course, leads to more questions. There was once a word for this: it was called "wisdom."

The reality theorist, on the other hand, does not inquire. They superficially analyze the information fed to them and find a tidy little corner where it might fit into their make-pretend world. And once accepted as "fact," they broadcast.

Like myriads of parrots the information is propagated throughout society at lightening speed. It is this efficiency of communication that seems to lend a certain measure of credence to the message. One could not possibly question this information because "everyone knows its true." "Get real," they say. Yet the facts are often never revealed, or worse, never explored. There is a word for this also: it is called "ignorance."

In this environment of ignorance and high-speed communication, there lies a fertile soil wherein the seeds of disinformation and deceit may find purchase. Here, in this cozy and safe world we construct, we allow ourselves to believe those things that perpetuate our comfort, feeling of security, and political agendas. We embrace those thoughts and ideas that guarantee our ongoing fantasy, and we abhor any statement that would serve to question the foundation of our dream-state world.

At one time, this would have been identified as the result of a propaganda campaign. Today it is championed as "awareness" and "political correctness." But, the question remains: are we the victims of a prolonged, well-developed propaganda campaign?

Consider the following quote from a communist training manual on psychopolitics:

"In order to be conquered, a nation must be degraded, either by acts of war, by being overrun, by being forced into humiliating treaties of peace, or by the treatment of her populace under the armies of the conqueror.

However, degradation can be accomplished much more insidiously and much more effectively by consistent and continual defamation. Defamation is the best and foremost weapon of Psychopolitics on the broad field.

Continual and constant degradation of national leaders, national institutions, national practices, and national heroes must be systematically carried out, but this is the chief function of the Communist Party Members, in general, not the psychopolitician.

The realm of defamation and degradation, of the psychopolitician, is Man himself. By attacking the character and morals of Man himself, and by bringing about through contamination of youth a general degraded feeling, command of the populace is facilitated to a very marked degree."

Those who practice "reality theory" never really get it. They often say "life is what you make it," but the truth is reality is what THEY make it. And who are "THEY?" Academia, the media, the politicians, and those who would like to forward their own political agenda.

But we ask. And we continue to ask because we do not fear the truth, or reality. We embrace reality, and we will never run from the truth.

The reality theorists, on the other hand, become downright indignant when their precious "reality" is questioned. There is a way to define this as well: it is called passionate ignorance.

When one is passionately ignorant, he cannot possibly accept, let alone interpret, anything other then what he believes. He cannot question his "reality," nor can he accept any answer that doesn't fit into his carefully constructed world.

This is perhaps the most dangerous phenomenon to be found within our "postmodern" society. How can we, at the beginning of the 21st century, be so completely ignorant and stubborn? How have we arrived at such a state that we profess high levels of intelligence, yet exhibit such high levels of outright stupidity?

The passionately ignorant will fight any fight, argue any position, and refute any claim that impinges upon there own particular flavor of the "real and tangible." Truth has no value and facts only get in the way of these people - unless of course you are speaking "their" truth and stating "their" facts. The Hegelian Dialectic is in full swing.

Alternative viewpoints and explanations, however grounded in the real and tangible, are not acceptable in the world of the passionately ignorant. Evidence of a contrary explanation are never examined honestly and objectively, but rather the method of collection or handling is questioned as an indication that perhaps the evidence was not "properly" collected or researched. Or, the ballots were not "properly" counted.

Remember O.J.?

Is this any indication of intelligence? Is this how America will enter the 21st century? Is this not dangerous for our country and its survival?

At this moment in our history our very foundations are under attack. The passionately ignorant, many of which who have probably never even read the constitution or the Federalist Papers, are willing to abolish important mechanisms devised by our forefathers as somehow inadequate in the modern era, or perhaps dysfunctional from the start. They are willing to rewrite the constitution, never contemplating the consequences of such an undertaking, and never considering the reasons why our system was devised the way it was in the first place.

As Ben Franklin replied when asked what kind of government the Constitutional Convention gave us: "A republic, if you can keep it."

The question of today is: Can we?

In fact, I would like to know how many of these people can actually read and interpret the constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, or the individual writings of our forefathers. As I have said before, interpretation requires comprehension, and I believe it is this skill that is woefully lacking within the population and our elected and appointed government officials. After all, they have all but admitted that they could not read and interpret a ballot, how can they interpret anything else? Still don't believe me? Go talk to a recently graduated High School student and try to ascertain how much they understand our government, its structure, and its history. I think your findings will shock you.

The fact is, one need not be a legal scholar to read and comprehend the constitution. On the contrary, the American people need to read and comprehend the process by which it was constructed, and the reasons behind its design. There is much information available that was written by the founders themselves which explains the meaning of our founding documents, and it does not take any academic scion of constitutional interpretation to explain it to us. In fact, academia need not attend the activity.

The constitution was intended for us, because it was written by us. It is ours to read, understand, interpret, and enforce by demanding its proper application from our government officials. It is written in plain language, and it is forceful in its directness.

However, as we are now witnessing, the judiciary has become the parliamentary authority over all things constitutional, and the arbitrators of our "enfranchisement" with the federal government, as if we ever needed such a thing. If this is allowed to continue for too much longer, we will find ourselves in a new America, and our constitution will no longer protect us from a federal government operating completely out of its rightful bounds.

Those who practice reality theory, the passionately ignorant (and I accuse members of both parties of being so), have become the very tool of our enemies. They no longer ask the questions, they no longer demand accountability, they no longer require honesty and integrity from their representatives, and they no longer wish to take responsibility for themselves or their country.

Of course, this is the result when you live a reality that has been engineered for you by those who wish to control you.

This is the result when we are dependent upon the "scholars" to do the interpreting of our constitution because of our ignorance, apathy, and the "training" we have received by educators who fail to produce citizens capable of basic comprehension skills.

This is the result when you are led by that ring in your nose called "enfranchisement" by demagogues who control you as a mob and usurp your divine rights as free individuals.

And, perhaps most importantly, this is the result when the passionately ignorant must protect their source of sustenance: big government providing socialist programs which further "empower" the passionately ignorant.

Still think conspiracy is a theory?

You live your theory, and I'll live mine.

Copyright 2000, AwareAmerica.com

posted 12-13-2000 01:23 PM            

yeah for paranoid nuts....

The article seemed negative and condescending to me....but then again alot of you are into that aren't you...

T/S

posted 12-13-2000 01:45 PM            

Unless they really are following you.

How'd they find out about Cliff?:

"The passionately ignorant will fight any fight, argue any position, and refute any claim that impinges upon there own particular flavor of the "real and tangible." Truth has no value and facts only get in the way of these people - unless of course you are speaking "their" truth and stating "their" facts. The Hegelian Dialectic is in full swing."

posted 12-21-2000 12:27 PM            

There's really nothing like a good conspiracy for internet longevity.

Well, really, how many times can a guy like Skoal-nik be wrong and still have his info spread as truth? Ooops, I forgot about Will Thomas, Caramelkorn, et al.

posted 01-03-2001 02:39 PM            

Clifford Carnicom is an idiot.

Will Thomas is an idiot.