RE: Why It's Time For Conspiracy Theorist To Quit Fearing Brain Microchip Implants, Grow The F^ck Up, And Get To Work Contributing To Mankind's Evolution...
Excellent post, Rok. Thank you. I've been quite frustrated myself at times with what many in the voluntaryist / anarchist community promote as "truth" because people use those labels to describe me as well. Often, when I engage or try to dig a little deeper, I find inconsistent epistemologies combined with insecurities because their "truths" have become part of their identities.
I agree, we all need to wake up, grow up, and skill up. Not everything is a conspiracy. If we want to be taken seriously by the world with our attempts to improve it, then we need to speak truthfully about the obvious conspiracies which no one can factually deny, such as the belief in fiat currency. This is why cryptocurrency is gaining so much traction. The conspiracy of central banking and fiat currency has a long and clear history and can be discussed rationally. Yes, there may be details which are fringe and lead off in unproductive tangents, but the core concept is simple. Money exists and has value because we collectively conspire together and believe it does. When that belief can be manipulated, then we can't control our own store of value. We should focus on real issues like this instead of wasting time on things which are really just childish.
At the same time, I think it's important to have understanding, compassion, patience, and an open mind. I've believed a lot of silly things in my life as well, and I'm sure I still believe some now also. I hope in the future to chuckle at myself now because that means I'm growing in wisdom and understanding.
Thing is - using the fiat situation as an example - there are layers upon layers of depth to planetary stories like these...
While i could simply agree with you on the "banking conspiracy" - perhaps at another level, it can't even be seen as a conspiracy at all. As someone else commented here - mankind is probably too stupid to pull off such grand "conspiracies" as they are proposed to be such...
What is missing from many of these theories is the consideration of human evolution's pace. People involved in setting up the banking systems hundred of years ago, and even decades ago, were living in a different world with nowhere near the access to as much info as we do now, nor was their consciousness anywhere in the same ballpark - not to say that as any sort of putdown, but a fact of matter.
At the time, the banking system solved a problem and provided valuable solutions. Just like the doctor who created the labotomy won a nobel prize because at the time, it was a breakthrough - even though as we've evolved in consciousness and capabilities, we might look at it very differently.
Hence, none of it may have been the type of diabolical "conspiracy" - irregardless of what Jekyll island facts might be brought to the table. Simply, it might have all just been one phase in a natural developmental process of human evolution - far less dramatic than our sensationalistic cultures of the 20th century have trained our minds to think like.
Aside from that tangent, I agree with your comment and respect the maturity of your outlook.
Sure, they believed what they were doing was "good" and "right" (as did Hitler -- Woot! Godwin's law achieved!) but it was still technically a conspiracy based on the historical facts we have:
Granted, their goal was to make it lawful, which they succeeded in, despite the previous failures of the First Bank of the United States and the Second Bank of the United States.
That said, I completely agree with this:
Evolution is always moving forward. It's not directed or controlled, it just is. Technology, even all the way back to the invention of cooking, is what makes us human. We're not going to escape that anytime soon.
At one point, some argue, rape was an evolutionary strategy. That doesn't make it right. I think we can acknowledge the failures of the past even if those failures, as we see them today, brought us to where we are. The hope for the future, I think, is collectively improving our epistemology so we can accurately know what is in order to make better decisions about what we want to be.
Based on my understanding of human psychology, biology, and neuroscience, I think what most of us want to be is free.
Thanks again for a great discussion.
lol, oh man... at first, all I saw of this in the replies page was the "Sure, they believed what they were doing was "good" and "right" (as did Hitler -- Woot!..." and was getting prepared to write,
"ah, good ol' first world privileges - so easily thinking every person's decision at any point in time was so clearly black-or-white..."
and then, of course, I saw the rest of this. humbled.
your argumentative skills are on-point.
I appreciate your breakdown of the conspiracy definition, going the extra length to clarify the viewpoint.
indeed, most of us likely deeply desire freedom. I suppose it takes time to achieve, and experience in the contrast to summon the motivation to take matters into one's own hands to seize that freedom.
t'is quite the ride, all this evolution.
and t'is quite an interesting time, that we're probably closer to that freedom than ever before...
"I think what most of us want to be is free."
I concur.
It does seem that pendulum is swinging the other way...while I was looking in the other direction. I we could detach from the labels, I think everything would flow and unity will happen naturally....Call me Pollyanna, but things just "feel" different. Hope's returning.