Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
Much noise is made about so-called conspiracy theories, especially when during the Covid pandemic—remember that one?—anyone who had any suspicion whatsoever that the government and the pharmaceutical industries might not have the interests of the average people in mind (and certainly not heart) were immediately labeled as 'anti-vaxxers', as if vaccines with a long established track record, and those which were rolled out during a period of panic and had to be rushed out quickly in order to seize profits, were the same.
I am not completely against the conspiratorial way of thinking, which is to say the general idea that there are incredibly powerful people who are able to coordinate together to further their own interests, because the system we live in affords some privileged people an enormous amount of power, and it isn't too far fetched to imagine them linking up with other similarly powerful people. How else for instance would someone like Jimmy Savile not be held accountable for what he did during his lifetime? The man abused hundreds of people amongst various age groups, and the idea that none of them would press charges or even try to speak out is ridiculous, and it isn't totally absurd—though of course there always are other explanations—to imagine that he had connections with key figures working in the police and the hospitals to bail him out. After all, when he was alive, he was liked by hundreds of thousands of people, and he was even knighted by the British Monarchy!
But there are many reasons to be suspicious of conspiracy theories too. One of them is that they have a contrarian impetus driving them, leading them to completely reject claims backed up with some amount of evidence with their own self-serving narratives. Of course, there ideas in the public sphere are flawed, but as John Michael Greer often writes, "the opposite of one bad idea is usually another bad idea".
Conspiracy theories are usually rooted in a healthy amount of doubt, but then sprout into a monstrous vine which ends up choking people's mind from any clarity. It is one thing to doubt many of the claims that scientific establishments make, especially when it comes to our health, for the human body is very complex, and to examine the structural problems of said establishments, but it is another thing altogether to start believing that the Earth is flat, that Tesla invented a way to have limitless and cheap energy but that the technologies had to be destroyed to maintain the oil and gas industries running, or that there is no such thing as anthropogenic climate change—which is happening but it is not the apocalyptic disaster that people claim it to be.
Another major reason to be suspicious of conspiracy theories is that, just like the ideas circulating in the mainstream, the ones which end up being popular are not the most truthful, but the ones which have the best mimetic fit with people in our racket of ideas. Which is to say that the type of conspiracy theories which spread well are those which make people feel smarter than others—everyone is blind to this but I have the truth!—give them the ability to blame the problems on a select group of people and not have to take responsibility—it's all because of the Jews / government / elites—and sidestep the process of thinking altogether—I don't know how it is true but it just feels true!
And perhaps the deepest and most fundamental reason to not engage with conspiracy theories is that ultimately, they never reach down to the roots of our problems. So what if governments hide UFOs and other alien technologies from us? What if there genuinely are chemtrails, what if this or that prominent figure faked their own death, and what if some elections were rigged? Those concerns are important for sure, but they are not at the root of our problems, which is mainly the Technological System which we are utterly helpless to change anything fundamental about, and whose demands must necessarily take precedence over what is good for people.
Identify the politicians taking part in pedophile rings, the people who killed John F. Kennedy and what intentions they had, prove that the Titanic was deliberatley sunk to eliminate people who opposed the creation of a U.S. central bank, or that the CIA is hiding UFO technology from us, or that Covid vaccines were a way to implant microchips into people, or that we are being deliberately poisoned through our food and toothpaste to be more compliant, and I can promise you that nothing fundamental would change, it would be like cutting a few heads from the Hydra, and standing back as they regrow.
The system would still have the same drive for technological progress at all costs, the same need to make people fit into an inhumane world, the same disconnect from nature, the same denial of death and compulsion to push any pain or discomfort further and further away from our lives, the same rigid institutions needed to maintain its order, the same competitive pressures which give rise to corruption and externalities, the same atomized and hyperspecialized people working for it, unable to connect with one another in any meaningful way, the same disconnect from Love, and the same unconscious and domesticated people maintaining all of this.
Conspiracy theories are ultimately a way to avoid looking at the entire picture, for if that were ever presented, the unconscious ego would squirm, looking for a way to blame someone, feel special about itself, deny the scale of our predicament, adopt a clear set of actions to solve specific problems, or maintain hope about the future, all of which are ways to avoid taking responsibility for the situation at hand. Conspiracy theories appeal to and reinforce the self, they will never give you the tools to overthrow the tyrant and put in its place a conscious, sovereign king, the conscious I who can understand these words, and who can respond intelligently to Life.
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2025-12-07