(This chapter originally appeared in the book The Truth at Last! 33 Essential Questions for Conspiracy Theorists)
I’m not taking your disbelief system away; you can continue believing in aliens just like many people believe in ghosts. Yet, understand that he who needs to tell others about his individual belief has an agenda, be it a disruptive agenda, an attention-seeking agenda or a demotivating or fear-inducing agenda.
For instance, those who told one and all that the world was going to end in 2012 desired to cause anxiety, worry, stress and panic. They desired to ruin everyone’s fun in order to create a sort of macabre equality.
Those who believe in ghosts, for instance, do so because they want to believe, or more so because they need to believe, that belief allaying anxieties and fears, that belief causing them to have hope in an afterlife and the extension of their existence beyond the physical. Yet, this is merely belief alone, evidenced by ghost hunters—they believe first without seeing proof and only hunt for evidence afterwards, no different from every conspiracy theist/theorist on the planet:
First there is belief or disbelief (belief in aliens or disbelief that a virus is real and deadly) and only after the individual has chosen whether to believe or disbelieve does he/she search for corroborative evidence, which guarantees skewed results as they are not seeking truth but rather validation that their initial belief-based assertion is true and correct. There is extreme bias here.
What are you getting out of telling others that you don’t believe anything, that only you know the real answers, that the foundations of everyone’s lives (science, the tangible, the quantifiable, earth being spherical, there not being a global cabal-esque conspiracy linking all nations together in tandem with aliens) are fake, hollow and ‘made in Hollywood’?
Every theorist knows psychology well and the impact it will have, this is inborn, this is Machiavellianism infused with narcissism. Each theorist knows full well the impact of their words, they know their words and doubt and questioning and pessimism and extreme contrarian cynicism will spread anxiety and fear and nihilism and cognitive dissonance and general unhappiness.
The theory brings everyone down, it demotivates everyone who encounters it; it is a seed of hateful doubt.
If you say, ‘I need to remain online shouting about the NWO and aliens and the next 2012 doomsday incident approaching, a rogue planet, a comet, a super volcano, or war of annihilation’ (the imagination of the unhappy sadistic theorist knows how to infuse terror into the minds of happy citizens), I respond with:
‘Why are you or your conjectures needed when nothing is ever proven to be true? That guess work may bear fruit when enough constant guesses are made (you have to be right sometimes), yet the huge numbers of things you are wrong about, be it the second coming that never occurs or the 2012 doomsday event that doesn’t occur, prove that your guesses, your conjectures, are unnecessary and unhelpful.
Rather than revealing you to be an altruist and helper who desires to prevent calamity and destruction and pain, your conjectures reveal you to be a person who desires the world to end in order to end your individual unhappiness. You are dismayed and annoyed and frustrated when the world doesn’t end in 2012, so you need to devise new ways to destroy the world, and if this cannot happen naturally, organically, via collision with a rogue planet, you instead seek to undermine the foundations of society. You seek to infuse nihilism and doubt and rebellion everywhere in order to cause anarchy and chaos and destruction via alternative means.
How many conspiracy theorists sold their homes the week before they claimed the world was certainly going to end in 2012 in order to afford to sit on a tropical beach for the last few weeks of their lives? Not a single one, because none of them believed that the theory they were telling millions of people was certainly true and fated to happen.
Their financial situation did not change one iota from the week before to the week after; nothing changed apart from their ego (which was damaged) and their general psychology and well-being as they accepted that they were liars, were frauds, were massively, intrinsically and deeply wrong, that they were psychologically comprised, that they were mentally ill, that they were deeply depressed and nihilistic verging on being murderous.
If one of tens of thousands of theorists on that fateful day (the day the earth was supposed to be destroyed in 2012) had possession of a button that when pressed would cause the earth to explode, killing all life on earth, which one of them wouldn’t press that button following their latest theory being proven to be absolute trash (like all of their fantasy delusions and attempts at spreading fear and anxiety and garnering attention)? Zero, the answer is zero.
The day after the world was not destroyed tens of thousands of theorists and theists alike turned on their computers and braced themselves as they checked message boards and social media. They knew that they would be mocked that day. They were so angry that the world was still there; they were so angry that they were forced to get their houses in order rather than having their houses blown up in a dramatic cataclysm—which would have been their preference, their definite preference.
Imagine being that wrong. Imagine being so certain, emphatically so, spending months and months online and in school and in college and in the workplace and around the dinner table ever shouting and shouting and shouting about the world coming to an end in 2012 only to be proven 100% incorrect.
This should have caused an awakening in such people, yet most simply doubled down, just as Jehovah’s Witnesses previously claimed their false end times prophecies weren’t wrong (when the world did not end as they claimed repeatedly through history), but rather they ‘got the dates wrong’.
Multiple branches of Christianity over the years did the same thing, claiming the world would end. Yet, due to desiring respect and attention and money, the day after it didn’t come to pass, the church/religion found “new proof” that the calamity or destruction or salvation was only temporarily postponed, so people shouldn’t allow their anxiety and depression and cynicism and fear to go just yet but rather wait a little longer until they are proven to be correct. Around the year 1000 many Christians believed the world would end, for instance.…
In 2012, many deeply unhappy people who identified as conspiracy theorists and truth seekers (who claim to want to help but only desire for all systems and power structures and good times for the majority to be ended via any means) certainly would have pushed the ‘self-destruct’ button if one were given to them the hour after the Armageddon they had all prophesised didn’t take place.
They had all agreed it was certain to happen because they deeply desired to kill every human being on the planet, including themselves, yet narcissism prevented suicide. (It is not possible to be a theorist without narcissism, theism is different. To theorise without proof or evidence requires deep inner belief and self-love, aka narcissism.) This is why so many theorists fantasised about being killed by a rogue planet menacingly drifting through space.
Some theorists and theists at this point may say, ‘Hell no, we wouldn’t have pushed the button; we want to save lives, we want to help people, we love people. We are the good guys, we care.’
To this I say, beyond “waking people up about the NWO/aliens/conspiracies” (which surprisingly has not resulted in you being killed by the NWO/aliens/Illuminati which I find very curious as should you—awake from your delusions!) how have you ever helped humanity? Do you regularly help the homeless and the poor and downtrodden? What charities are you involved with? How many of your neighbours will tell me you always volunteer to help the elderly or the infirm? What good random deeds do you do anonymously that could not benefit you directly?
The reason why I know most theorists/theists are not habitual lovers of humanity and ‘people persons’ is because if they were, if they were engaged in the community and in charity and altruism, they would never have the time or the desire/drive to spread nihilism, pessimism, doubt, fear and doom-mongering far and wide.
Claiming to be a saviour of humanity online by forewarning of an apocalypse (not useful information as nothing could be done about it, but for a few seconds the theorist could exclaim, ‘I was right,’ for the first time) or claiming to love people by attacking the “billionaire Illuminati club” does not make it so.
If everyone tells me you are antisocial and brash with a short temper and endless hostility for everyone who does not acquiesce to your will on every occasion, if everyone who has met you this year tells me you never smile, that you are always angry and never volunteer to help the community in any way, it is suggestive that the billionaire is a scapegoat, that you are individually very unhappy, that you are choosing not to change because change is hard and being tolerant and patient and compromising is hard in the extreme when you have the option of merely sitting at your computer shouting about aliens or UFOs or the NWO or the next 2012 doomsday event. It takes away the need to fit in, to become part of the whole—stop running away from life and responsibilities.
For so long as you insist on telling others about your belief in that which you have no proof of, no evidence of, theories that if found to be true would cause society and the world to become fractured and broken and reality to disintegrate and anarchy to be created in an instant, please accept that you are doing so for self-serving reasons. This is all about you and you alone.
You were not helping people when you said there were two or twenty-two gunmen on that day in Dallas; nor were you helping people when you wildly claimed man didn’t walk on the moon; nor were you helping people when you said 9/11 was an inside job; nor were you helping people when you said 2012 was the final year humans would exist—as the end result of these “theories” (which should remain in your head or be between you and a psychiatrist alone) is never peace, harmony, revelation, justice and calm but rather chaos, terror, anxiety, paranoia, and abject misery.
Say nothing about unprovable theories and alleged conspiracies and nothing will happen one way or the other. You want something to happen, you want power and attention, and if you can’t get these things you care not whether humanity survives or not.
You must be in pain and afraid and suffering in order to have found yourself trapped within the ConjectureMania thought bubble and vehicle for temporary escapism and blame-shifting. Yet your pain and unhappiness and fears are not reduced by causing all to experience these things, and few understand that your conjectures or your parroting of the conjectures of others are in large part a desperate cry for help in one way or another. There are better ways, healthier ways, to communicate and many folk around who would love to listen and to help. You are not alone, you are never alone so long as you do not give up on humanity and hope and love.
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