News Spotlight on “Why Conspiracy Theories Never Die” — 4/23/2019

If you’ve looked at Today’s News, you probably found a fine little essay by Christopher Chantrill called Why Conspiracy Theories Never Die. He tells us:

“Now that the whole Russia Collusion conspiracy theory gussied up by the deep state/Clinton campaign/fake media communities has proved to have been much ado about nothing, there is the question about what comes next? What do all the believers do now that their fantasy lies in ruins?The answer is obvious, and is practiced by all millennial cults prophesying the end of the world.You loudly announce that nothing has changed, you patch up the prophecies, and you declare that the world is still going to come to an end, only a bit later than previously forecast.”

Cult is the right word and the mainstream bluenose media is fully on board, as you can see in the TV series trailer up top and in the flattering coverage of Al Gore and other climate change propagandists. Even when some harebrained theory has come completely unraveled, the priests of that theory just keep doubling down.

Also this morning, I found a gem of a Post by Philip Schockaert down at Facebook, where there is still some good stuff from time to time. He reminds us how often this kind of cultish hatred of Mankind has expressed itself in just this century:

Maybe because of the movie I watched last night, I found myself fantasizing about a meeting of all these great conspirators, including Noam Chomsky btw, and imagined a Mike Hammer-type intruder, you know, the kind of man Hammer-creator Mickey Spillane described as “the evil that lives to fight the evil no one else can.” It went something like this:

Maybe that’s what happened back in the day. I guess, conspiracy theorists aren’t the only ones guilty of wishful thinking.


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