My Rant
49I am as mad as hell...
RANT
I am going to take a risk and put my neck and rear out there for everyone to take a swat at. Something is really giving me a bad rash that I see in people. First I need to set the stage. I recall a movie in 1976 called “Network.” In brief, the movie was about the way the average citizen has become lethargic and incapable of thinking for themselves. The movie shows a television reporter who has gotten fed up with the system and how the public just accepts everything pushed on them by the people who control public opinion. I seem to recall a scene in that movie where a lot of people in an apartment complex stick their heads out the window and shout, “I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.”
The thing that is causing me so much irritation is that there are a lot of people who think that this level of protest is effective. I have a real problem with this attitude because it seems hypocritical. I mean, here you have people sticking their heads out the comfort zones of their cozy homes shouting some meaningless gibberish about how they are fed up with the way things are and then they pull their heads back into the safety of their homes, they have a snack and then curl up under their warm blankets and fall safely asleep. There is something fake in that to me. Real change, requires real people like you and I to make real sacrifices. Many people have bought into the ineffective forms of protest and activism. Please do not misunderstand that statement. I did not say that protest and activism are ineffective, I said that many forms of them are ineffective. Also, I am not trying to imply that you should set yourself on fire on the White House lawn.
As a Nation, we are divided into red States and blue States, conservative and liberal, rich and poor and all the other superficial things we have allowed to divide us and keep us distracted from the truth of what is happening to our Democracy and the freedoms we have been loosing since 911.
I am fairly certain that many of you have heard some of the shocking claims that are made by such people as Alex Jones, Jeff Rense and broadcasts on the Coast to Coast AM radio station. Some of these claims like 911 was an inside job and that our country is being ran by secret societies like the freemasons are fascinating and there is a level of truth to some of these claims. However, some of the ways these claims are presented makes them hard to believe in the format that they are presented in. In all fairness, some of the explanations that we are offered by mainstream media are just as ridiculous. Getting back to what irritates me... I get so tired of hearing people doggedly stick to one view on any of these issues without ever investigating the opposite side of an argument or issue. I frankly cannot understand how anyone can make their mind up without looking at all sides of an issue.
Personally, I am not all of any one thing. On some issues I am conservative and on some things I am liberal and on other things I am a moderate. It all depends on the issue and I am always open to at least listening to all the points of view. I think that a lot of people who have tunnel vision are participating in “group think.” Their opinions are not based on any independent investigating, but rather a result of parroting the views and opinions of someone else... they are repeaters.
I would be very interested in hearing your views on such subjects as F.E.M.A. Camps, 911 was an inside job, population control, forced inoculations for the flu virus, chem trails not to be mistaken for contrails and all the other things that has the conspiracy theorists up in arms, oh and speaking of arms, what are your personal views on gun control laws getting stricter? Please leave your comments in the comments section of this Hub. Thanks for participating in this discussion.
By: Neocarl
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I am a conspiracy theorist and have no trouble with that label apart from like David Icke I would prefer "conspiracy factist"! Indeed, I agree with most of what is claimed by others on these subjects with the exception of chemtrails which I used to believe in but no longer do so and I have detailed my reasons in a hub on the subject. I agree with you that conspiracy believers often tend to have fixed opinions and be biased so they do not really examine the opposing claims and tend to brand people as "evil scum" etc based on what they have read or just because someone is related to someone else. I recently spoke up saying I don't believe David de Rothschild is a bad man and that I agree with a lot he says and met with NO agreement on this from conspiracy believers who have already all pronounced him as guilty of what his family has done.
Please read post I put on another site:
Dan Rather told world JFK head moved forward slightly but neglected to mention violent backward motion. He was the only news person (I use term laughingly) allowed access to Abraham Zapruder film viewing because conspirators knew the TEXAN (what a surprise) would tow gov line.
Walter Cronkite was told by LBJ that he believed in conspiracy regarding JFK murder. The news anchor did not think that major announcement was important enough for unwashed masses so it was suppressed.
Would you place both these guys in category of respected and unbiased reporters? History does. People with functional brains but not unthinking sheep know the truth! It is not hard to see. All it takes is an open mind plus a bit of common sense.
Want to know about media you speak so highly of? Reporting of Viet Nam American death totals were a daily joke to guys stationed in that green Hell. Americans were told by media of a handful of deaths as body bags (with dead Americans) were being deposited by dozens at morgue! Want to know how many Americans actually died (were murdered in illegal undeclared war) in Viet Nam? Multiple the OFFICIAL American gov total by 10. That will be close!
Why do all moon alleged visitors flatly refuse to attest UNDER OATH that they went to moon? Unbalanced Buzz "Sucker Punch" Aldrin actually assaulted a private citizen when this was mentioned. Seems mighty strange. Unless, of course, these astro-nots did not actually fly to the moon after all. A stage set somewhere in the desert is not the moon.
Forgive my ramblings but you seem like an intelligent individual. Just wish more young Americans would use their brains more often! As a reporter, I recognize most gov releases are not worth the paper they are printed on or the time it takes to type them electronically.
Oh well. Peace.
Check out my hubs if you wish. Many on conspiracies!
What all this Republican vs. Democrat, con vs. lib nonsense does is allow people to be distracted from the actual issues. It allows people to view politics as if they are some fan at a football game cheering on the home team rather than someone whose life (and many times death) is directly affected by everything the government does. For most people the affects are very incremental and spaced out over time, so it's easy to see them as a necessary evil and view people more affected as responsible for their own plight.
It's also easy to write off more extreme views as crazy conspiracies because they rattle that cage you are so comfortable inside and threaten to make you think critically about things you have become so conditioned to accept. Then things like Operation Mongoose slip out and people realize that it's not so far fetched that the government would turn on its own citizens to achieve more power for itself. Nor is it so crazy that they could feed school children irradiated cereal and allow soldiers to die of syphilis just so they could study the effects.
Conspiracies exist and some of them are pretty outrageous. You have to separate the disinformation from the real stuff, but just because something is labeled as a conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's false.
Hi there neocarl...Well, I believe some conspiracies DO exist...and will exist and have existed. How could one possibly deny that there are and have been questionable explanations for things when, upon further investigation, appear to be just the opposit of the explanation? The assasination of President Kennedy (among other examples) comes to mind. There have always been egregious individuals and groups who feel superior; who actually believe it is their "right" to lord over or subjugate the "masses."
This is expressed in many forms be they political, governmental, financial, etc.
We are all human; our "leaders," corporate magnates, and 'we the people.' As such, we are falible..we are governed by a desire to survive which, in this modern age; is manifest on so manhy overt and covert levels. This drive to continue; to exist takes many forms; some very palpable; others quite hidden.
We who were raised and educated in the United States to believe a certain way; to regard our beginnings and our overall philosophy according to a very defined and sugar coated controlled serving of pablum. Of course, as we've grown and become more "sophisticated" as well as open; and the materials available to us via internet, etc.; we have broadened our scope of knowledge and, therefore, our "take" on the way things 'were' and are.
I am standing with you when you say: "Personally, I am not all of any one thing. On some issues I am conservative and on some things I am liberal and on other things I am a moderate. It all depends on the issue and I am always open to at least listening to all the points of view. I think that a lot of people who have tunnel vision are participating in “group think.”
Yet; sadly, we have allowed ourselves to develop ideologies and philosophies and identities via "mob rule" of the mind. We allow political groups to define who we are and what we/what to think. This is laziness to the extreme.
To err is human...and, on every level...we exercize this trait to the ultimate.
Sometimes intentionally; othertimes, just because we have not taken the time to consider, ponder, analyze, question and wonder. To think!
I could go on forever but, I truly appreciate this "rant," and thank you for putting it out there for the rest of us to mull over.....UP Awesome Useful Interesting!
Mister Mac 2 years ago
I have been hearing a lot about Eugenics lately and how Obama's top science advisor write a book in 1977 saying that eugenics (ex: forced abortions, birth control in the water supply) was good. Sounded like BS, but then I found direct scans online (not my site) and its true. SCARY!
http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/