Item: Conspiracy
Culture Internationale
The global impact
of the “brave-new information age” and its operating system, the
so-called “new media” was profoundly demonstrated in
the 2016 US
Presidential elections. As opposed to being a cathartic event, Election
Day was chillingly divisive. The outcome caught many people… many
factions... by surprise. For some, their bewilderment raised suspicions
of the fidelity of a political process ostensibly designed
“of the people, by the people & for the
people.” For others, their worst
suspicions were confirmed.
In the wake of this and recent European political trends, we appear to
be in the midst of an internationally reactionary,
populist/nationalist, alt-right convulsion. As the 45th president of the
United States, referred to herein as the
*Orange One...
loaded his cabinet with big oil execs, bankers, generals and family
members, the US transition was poised to go from bankrupt democracy to
rising
Corporatocracy. Or maybe the PTB facade
was slipping...
It can be argued that
what we witnessed being played out on Election Day
was a rare glimpse of the true machinations of globally impactful power.
Some would contend that the result
revealed a de facto military junta… a power play by “military intelligence”
over the Central Intelligence Agency. While the CIA had been favored by the
Obama regime, the Orange One's regime clearly preferred MI. The CIA’s subsequent
“leaked” revelations of Russian intrigue into US elections seems
to support this
theory.
However, even as the US
special prosecutor closed in on these nefarious exploits… events were still unclear. What actually went down may be
even more deeply conspiratorial. The fact that recent political outcomes were so widely
unanticipated indicates that the usual smoke and mirrors of the
Hegemony
fell away for a brief moment. Such international disarray is rarely
witnessed by general populations. It only occurs when a major shift
in power takes place... when the powers themselves are in disarray. But
there are other powers, other global forces at play here in the brave
new information age…
The forces to which I refer, is the global recognition,
adoption and weaponization of what once was a marginalized fringe culture. Witness the
rise of: Conspiracy Culture Internationale.
Not long ago, if a
commentator spoke of a Shadow Government or the Deep State,
let alone the Kennedy assassinations, fake moon landings or
the Roswell incident, he or she would have been promptly
labeled a fanatic, a kook, or worse… a conspiracy theorist.
With the rise of 21st century culture war politics and the unsettling
evolution of the afore mentioned new
media... conspiracy theory has become legitimized… has
gone mainstream. Conspiracy theory has long been
associated with the political right-wing... hence the recently and widely reported rise of the
Alt-right, by pop-media.
Conspiracy Culture, for want of a more accurate
descriptor, is a massive, diverse, globally intact
phenomenon. Rather than being identified by genetic
heritage or nationality, its ethnicity is composed of
those who subscribe to the multifaceted principles of
high
strangeness. Conspiracy Culture
International (CCI) embraces the seemingly divergent
communities that monitor or adhere to not only
conspiracy & Deep State theory, but
occult & new age
philosophies, neo-religious beliefs, PSI phenomena & the
paranormal, psychedelia, astrology & magick, alt history,
ancient alien & alien abduction narratives... even
cyberpunk, transhumanism & technological singularity.
The true rise of conspiracy theory as a
mainstream phenomenon is driven by a pervasive mistrust
of government & political institutions, the
commoditization of science and the proliferation of multi-national corporatocracy. In short: The dominator (or predator)
culture. This mistrust is shared by liberals and
conservatives alike… alt-right and
noö left. It goes
beyond the political, the national, to the very fabric
of modern global culture. Conspiracy Culture
Internationale is a response to the quickening of
socio-economic disparity, cultural warfare and impending climate change… it is a
byproduct… a
response… to the acceleration of these forces.
Old Earth's grasp of
conspiracy theory traditionally fell into two camps, along a
politically-informed, right vs left dichotomy of paranoia. Within this old
paradigm, the Right Wing paranoia obsessed upon a fear & loathing of Big
Government, the rise of Bureaucracy and a
tyrannical abuse of power. The
Left Wing paranoia obsessed upon a fear & loathing of Big Business, the rise
of a Corporatocracy and the
exploitive abuse of power. This simplistic,
black and white understanding of world affairs is essentially how the
majority of our planet's population still perceive the machinations of
globally impactful power.
While these scenarios
are the product of the fever-dream of either camp's fanatical extreme, both
right and left have legitimate reasons to suspect their counterpart's means
of power. A closer approximation of the reality of the situation
suggest that both extreme's scenarios are equally and deeply troubling. It is also
highly likely that the true powers that be, are extremely satisfied to see
these opposing factions squabble amongst themselves... the age-old divide
and conquer ploy.
Oddly, there are
legitimate
roles for both properly functioning governments and corporations, within a
healthy society. Properly transparent corporations can provide creativity
and innovation, even within a capitalist framework. A functioning government
can provide oversight, to ensure that corporations do not run amok. A
balance of these two institutions can be of great service, and need not do harm,
to society at large. It is when one or both of these institutions break
down, or become corrupt, that human populations suffer.
The new
Conspiracy Culture Internationale recognizes the wisdom in trusting no
one... neither government, nor corporation.
Conspiracy Culture Internationale also recognizes the pathologic malignancy
of tyranny and exploitation that is inevitable, if said institutions are
left unchecked.
How this all plays out
is unclear, as we are in process. Not all the proverbial cards have been
played. The months and years ahead will be exceedingly interesting, to say
the least. The idea of a Conspiracy Culture Internationale may play out in
different ways. The nature of how it plays out… is up to us. Hope springs
eternal. However... for the cynics among us, I leave you with a quote from
that rascally old heretic, Teilhard de Chardin…
“The future belongs to
those who give the next generation reason for hope.”
- adapted from
Jack Hearts upcoming book: Applied
Tek-Gnostics
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Reference to 45 as the Orange One, courtesy
of our friend Relcuse, over at
VISUP
