why are conspiracy theorists always hideous dorks that never leave their basement?

seriously?

 

I didn't know that. But then again, there's only one I've met, and he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette.

 

I've been accused as such.

I have no basement and I deal with people every-single-day. For years now.

I mix with people because that is where you find the interactive "God" in living form. When you look into their eyes, you realize what you do, you do for their sake and not your own. Even if they put you down.

Any other motivation is void.



x

 

Over-Dramatic much?

 

The basement conspiracist stereotype is put there for the same reason BET is the "black" station and enforces stereotypes as such... its media generated and after so many years its become "common knowledge" that anyone who generates a conspiracy must be in there basement with a map of the US that has lots of not so random pins in it next to baywatch poster... while the air is full of nervous cigarette smoke (store bought of course, the media affords NOBODY the opportunity to roll their own)... twitching hands, large glazed over eyes, dorky glasses, a crooked creepy smile...

Clearly ANYONE can form a theory, soccermoms and rockstars alike... but the media portrays conspiracists as paranoid lunatics who just have a screw loose...

A kid sees this media portrayel and never looks at forming conspiracies again, until he eventually falls upon something that doesn't sit right with him... then he may or may not pursue so as not to be stuffed into the conspiracist box. The public in general has connoted conspiracy negatively... same with anarchy... yet neither are inherantly bad at all.

Anytime there is any hint of secrecy in a government, there MUST be conspiracy to unwravel whats really going on... going along with government explanations turns the country into a 1984'ish machine, truly the dark light at the end of our present tunnel.

While anyone may form a conspiracy... those select few who ARE completely paranoid may lock themselves in a basement etc etc... but they are a few - there are MILLIONS of folks who either align with theories or have their own... if anyone reading this lives in a populous area, its a good chance in their day to day lives they come across a conspiracist... but with all the negative connotations and such, they will likely never reveal themselves as such.... for fear of negative reactions. I'd go so far as to say the *majority* of people in america believe in a conspiracy somewhere along the line... considering the 50 year later apologies and what not, its hard to simply assume tower 7 fell in on itself because it was on fire...

 

Um, anarchy is not nherently bad, but if it was to happen in reality, it would be chaos, and chances are that a lot of the idealists that support the idea would quickly get killed by any number of people: angry people who liked government, people who feel free to kill now that there are no rules, racists who get out of prison, etc. Anarchy is good in small doses, like LSD.

The Mushroom Man

 

I like X have been accused as such as well and I work in the correctional system and I'm a volunteer firefighter I work out 6 times a week and im a gym rat. The furthest thing from a bored de-socialized basement dweller type ... quite the opposite actually.

 

Its not a conspiracy if they are really out to get you

 

Anarchy was used in Catalonia from 1936 to 1939 before the Fascists took over. It didn't turn into a massacre. In fact, it worked rather well considering workers ran everything, money was replaced, and people survived by cooperation. Oh, and all this happened while they were fighting a war.

 

That's just what they want you to think.

 

Mmmm, the lyrics to a Stephen Stills song are suddenly ratteling around in my mind....

Seen Enough

I lost my innocence over intolerance
All the indignities heaped on the black man
We went to church they all prayed for the white man
The cops and the preachers
Were most of 'em in the Klan
What's a kid s'posed to think when the adults
Are all such hypocrites impossibly smug

I have seen enough
I have seen enough of this
Had enough
Quite enough, I swear

The next generation, the woodstock nation
A little bit flaky, but no hesitation
Stop the war, it wasn't worth dyin' for
The paranoia of the cold warriors
Arrogant old men with domino theories
Fractured fairy tales tryin' to kill me

I have seen enough
I have seen enough of this
I have read enough
History to see right through this

You got outcast upset
People you never met
Locked in the basement
Hot-wired to the net
Isolated, infuriated
The punchline to the joke
Is how they are gonna smoke
Every last stuck-up snob ever dissed them
Look in their eyes how could you miss them

Ain't you seen enough
I have seen enough of this
I've had quite enough
Seen enough

We got dead-eyed, dead drunk
Dead stupid cyberpunks
Fed-up killer geeks
Gigabyte meth freaks
Home alone in a world of their own
Up all night in the thick of the fight
Fantasy combat, veteran psychos
Removed from reality by silicon diodes

Seen enough
I have seen enough of this
Have you read enough
So, you don't know nothin' about it

You got powerbook potentates
Pointedly obviate
Every opinion
They have about anything
Even if they don't know shit
Stay in the limelight
Got your own website
Got all the answers, ain't got a lick of sense
Practicing psychiatry without a license

Ain't you seen enough
Had enough of this
I have had enough
Ain't it bad enough for you yet

So you got overfed
Talking heads on television
Ignoring the obvious with pained expressions
Ask the ones that sell the damn guns
By the truckload every day
Fast as they can make 'em
What's a kid s'posed to think
When the adults
Refuse all accountability
When they fuck up

Ain't you seen enough
Ain't you had enough of this
Goddam tired enough
Have we done enough about this
I have seen enough

 

Ok, 7 million people live in Catalonia, nowadays. It was probably considerably smaller way back in the day. Yeah, shit works on a small scale, I won't ignore that fact. Kibbutz' in Israel (small socialist communities) work fantastically. But, when there are a lot of people, the chances of anarchy working get wayyy smaller. The reason is, that when there are a lot of people, there will be the right-wing equivalent of Pressed Rat and Zorba the Grape and all of them, and they will fuck the whole thing up. And as for the workers running it, I don't think it was anarchy. If there is someone in charge, it isn't anarchy. All of the rules must be agreed upon by EVERYONE. It may have worked there, but it wont work on a large scale unless everyone is extremely like minded and there is nobody who disagrees in the slightest, which is basically impossible because of people like Zorba and them. They are good for a democracy, but very bad for anarchy. Just the fact that people like them exist means that after a certain population, anarchy isn't going to work.

The Mushroom Man