Why bother having an informed understanding of the dynamics of the modern world based on rigorous research? Much easier to watch a few YouTube clips about some secret, manipulative elite or even amphibians from outer space with an agenda to control the world.
Many conspiracy theorists have indeed actually been quite informative on how the banking system works and how bankers conspire to control policies by keeping governments in permanent debt. They have also highlighted glaring flaws in official accounts of 9/11. They have rightly pinpointed what the mainstream misses out of its narratives and have raised issues that many on the left had tended to ignore or gave scant attention to. But such useful insights then become wrapped up in theories that too often appear to be based on flights of fancy.
There is no doubting that people can and do conspire to shape events. Not everything can be explained by structures where individual motive is eradicated. For example, corporations conspire to produce price cartels, media barons conspire to dominate and state-corporate interests embark on military jaunts to control markets and resources. And yes, bankers conspire to restrict credit for various reasons. But this has to be placed within the wider context of Empire and capitalism.
In capitalism, the compulsion to compete, dominate and pursue profit casts long shadows over virtually every social and cultural institution, from government and politics to education, law, agriculture and entertainment.
Conspiracy theorists and their followers may well appreciate aspects of this, but merely speculate about the intentions of and actions of groups of people without addressing how capitalism shapes any of it.
In finishing it is interesting to recall that not everything in life can be neatly explained away, as the philosopher Karl Popper once famously argued. It can be easy for conspiracy theories to overlook the pervasive unintended consequences of political and social action and assume that all consequences must have been intended. Unpredictability abounds. And that’s something some on the left may care to occasionally chew over too. The Role of Anti-Establishment “Conspiracy Theories”Sometimes I view it as getting people with "settled" neural nets (including myself) to think about alternative explanations or possibly think about a few patterns other than those they've already settled into. There's no need to go crazy with seeing patterns (superstition, schizophrenia) but it's often worthwhile to think about it (the genus of genius, hypothesis and all sound theories about patterns).
Imagine that.
After all, your brain is already weaving together patterns and images which are often false on their own terms anyway. Seeing is believing? Well... only if you trust your brains and except in the case of illusions, lucid dreaming, some drugs, the gnostic idea of the universe as a hologram or prison for Satan and so on and so forth.
With respect to Gnosticism, interesting how even according to the Bible something evil was already "imprisoned" in the tree and then it went into people and into the ground. Or that's the way it appeared relative to the person describing the story later. In other news, the story is that the sun will probably rise again tomorrow. Meanwhile, it is perfectly "true" when someone says that the sun rose today. Yet in the end it's only from our perspective that it is rising and we might not be here to know if it did not. Not to mention that if one could imagine things from the perspective of the black hole that the sun is revolving around in the center of the galaxy, then what is the sun doing? There's probably a reason why the imaginary "covering cherub" has guided events in the way that it has, including crucifying God. I.e. at least in its own mind and according to its own techniques it is winning the game or almost completing the Tower of Bable or almost completing a star gate even as prophets at a lower level keep saying to let the builders of schemes of that sort go. Low level theatrics about things aside, it's a mind which I'd imagine to be rather higher than our own and I'd imagine that it's calculating that eternity is worth the price. For whatever reason... or maybe we should understand, as this is no more than what we do to others and ourselves at lower and more temporal levels. Which makes one wonder about yourself, the nature of deception and believing that you're "right" about anything. So I thank God for people like Moses, Paul and others who became rather deeply acquainted with the nature of the pyramid schemes (link to a Gnostic, so beware) and illusions of "law" or other deceptions typical to or built into things in their day. Just saying.
Maybe there's a reason that biblical authors just cut to a deeper form of truth and say that people sometimes become "vain in their imaginations" if they are willingly deceived. Or in the case of Babel and the rest of the pyramid schemes that litter the entire globe (from Egypt, to China, to the coast of Japan, to the Aztecs, etc.) that people did "what was right in their own eyes." Interesting how what is right in their own eyes or their "vain imaginations" always seems to be pyramid schemes full of pornography and perversions engraved in stone and not caring for the least of these in the least, though. One would think that there would be one that was different, if the evolution of all these graven images came about based on random events in the brains between people's symbolic temples or perhaps "chance" or even a Darwinian "survival of the fittest." Again... those who become vain in their imaginations never seem to want to care for the least of these, naturally.
In any event... what is chance being imagined to be by the minds of some, again? True ignorance may be bliss, sort of like the sleep that we all awaken from, from time to time... but willfully ignoring things while being alive to observe them or willfully being deceived about life is not the equivalent of true ignorance.
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