Conspiracy Saturation

I'm all for gravy. The best kind. But not the poorly constructed recipes of nonsense & story telling.

Allegedly the term "conspiracy theorist" was coined as a way to marginalize anyone who was skeptical of the official story behind JFK's assassination. With the number of major media outlets totaling something you could count on one hand, a slip of disclosure on JFK or any topic behind held from the public, required swift & thorough action.

For a time during COVID, I personally thought that was one of the main objectives for "slowing the spread" (of information) for "viral" transfers of rapidly escaping truth. However the stark contrast between the tightly controlled media outlets of the 1960s with the vast outlets of information channels (broadcast tv, cable tv, internet tv/streaming, radio AM/FM, CB radio, podcasting, social media, print media, virtual periodicals,etc) there have long since been too many points of failure to maintain the old guard methodology for containment. Shadow bans and firewalls not withstanding, the internet in particular, likely caused a rapid change in approach.

Enter the flood of conspiracism. Yuri Bezmanof (an alleged KGB defector) once discussed what the latter stages of a subverted society is one that has lost a grasp on reality- inability to have universally agreed-upon definitions, common social norms, etc. In that spirit, it appears the enormous saturation of conspiracy theories online make it so no matter the subject- there is not only a seemingly knee-jerk counter narrative (stage one healthy skepticism) but almost and endless set of perspectives filled with loose conjecture, wild assumptions, confirmation biases and in some cases outright made up lore. 

This, combined with the introduction of A.I. generated content, paints an interesting picture for what information sourcing might look like going forward. If you ever glanced at a National Enquirer magazine while in the checkout of your grocery store and thought- "The Queen secretly clones self to give birth to Lizard overlord? Who would buy this?" Scroll through TikTok. There's probably a channel on it.

And now those who might be concerned with the disclosure of certain information- can at least hope that eventhough it got out, it's a single voice in a chorus on nonsense.

-Codd