Dr. Anthony Fauci covers his face while President Trump talks during a coronavirus briefing. (White House/Screenshot)
Posted on 06/19/2023 9:45:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Are you a conspiracy theorist? If you are thoughtful and interested in public affairs, the media will say you are. And they will smear and dismiss you for it.
Dr. Anthony Fauci covers his face while President Trump talks during a coronavirus briefing. (White House/Screenshot)
For more than half a century, certainly since the Kennedy assassination, anyone who notices patterns and missing pieces in public life, and attempts a possible explanation that suggests cover-ups or other nefarious dealing, is denounced as a “conspiracy theorist” and hence self-evidently wrong and probably crazy.
The trouble is that it is very difficult to make sense of public life today without some degree of speculation based on morsels of evidence. That’s because so much of the truth of things is hidden behind security walls.
Anyone who thinks the public has not been hoodwinked by some very powerful people is hopelessly naïve or not paying any attention. The sheer number of once-trusted institutions and individuals who have betrayed us is beyond belief. And this is true for a vast range of issues from war to economics to public health to academia and medicine generally.
In the case of COVID—by which I mean not the virus but the “whole-of-society” response—the rule-making power was transferred from public health to the intelligence community on March 13, 2020, with the emergency declaration. This is not a speculation. We have all the documents. Upon release, they were marked confidential.
It was a remarkable shift in the American system, away from representative democracy and toward rule by administrative bureaucracies. Those are the people who closed your churches and schools. They did it without a vote or polls. They somehow gained the power to do it while bypassing every institution of consent.
This wrapped the whole of the biggest mass attack on liberty in living memory in a blanket of secrecy. Even now, people are afraid to talk. You hear things but usually second-hand. The sources close to the operation keep everything under wraps because that is what they agreed to do. They live with this burden even now.
Yes, many secrets. There are still so many questions. And people are left to speculate. Was there one big plot or thousands and millions of little plots? Was this all directed toward an intended nefarious end (as so many say) or did it work more like an Ouija board, with no one in particular moving the planchette but rather reflecting the mind of the group?
Look at the word conspiracy itself. It derives from the Latin for breathe. It means to breathe together. Other words based on the same root are inspire (taking breath in, as if from God), aspire (to breathe upon with hope), and expire (to stop breathing).
To conspire doesn’t necessarily mean plotting. Or planning. Or scheming. It doesn’t even have to be driven by ill intent. It only means that the actors in the action know what it is they are supposed to do, as if breathing. They know their interests and can anticipate the actions of others without asking or being told. They gauge their own actions to coordinate with others.
In that sense, there doesn’t need to be a plot for there to be a conspiracy. There are certain things you know for sure. If tonight I attended a high-end cocktail party at an exclusive Boston country club, I know for sure that a way to scandalize the guests would be to express disgust at Pride Month. Doing that would cause people to avoid me for the duration and never be invited back. The topic doesn’t even need to come up at all. I can make a reasonable assumption—without knowing any other facts—that the people at this event are all tacitly on board with Pride Month. It’s a given. Is it a conspiracy? In a literal sense, yes.
To have a conspiracy theory is simply to speculate as to the reasons for the coordination. The theory does not have to point to a plan but rather map out the coordination of interests toward a goal. That’s not disreputable. It’s simply a matter of being smart. It indicates that you have your eyes wide open and are curious for answers. You are merely trying to figure out how it is that people come to breathe together, seemingly acting with unity of intent.
For years I conducted a choir of a special sort. We sang entirely without accompaniment and from a repertoire from the 16th century in which the beat is implicit most of the time. That meant that counting and comprehending the tempo depended entirely on an internal sense of timing. It has to be shared among the entire group. It is conveyed by the conductor in part but only as a guide and not the beat itself.
Internalizing the tempo is a much bigger hurdle than the notes themselves. If you cannot get the beat, the music simply does not happen. That beat has to come from within.
I learned over time that when I was doing a clinic with a new choir that had never sung this type of repertoire, it was best to begin with tempo exercises. I would take at least 30 minutes helping people comprehend the tempo without any sound. It needs to be built into the heart and mind. It’s the only way that one can make sense of the entrances and exits section by section. If we couldn’t get this part right, the music would never come together.
Once it does come together, the conductor can eventually become superfluous. Ideally, by the time I finished the clinic, which usually lasted a day, we could sing several large pieces without any conductor at all. I only needed to start and stop the music. In professional choirs that specialize in this music, they do not even need that. They conduct themselves with looks and glances. That’s all they need. (If you are curious as to how this works, here is a fine example.)
An illustration drawn from the COVID years came from a Trump press conference in which Fauci was standing behind him. Trump was saying something particularly strange. Fauci strained to keep from laughing and so covered his face. Now, he is a man of some discipline. Why did he do this? It was a signal to his friends in the media, pharma, and the whole gang that he was not on board with the Trump administration. He was showing them that he can be counted on to manage a response contrary to what the president wanted.
In the same way, the CDC and FDA did not need to get together with Pfizer and Moderna to map out a plan. They all knew each others’ interests and could anticipate each others’ actions. They are part of the same tribe. And that tribe is based on experience and trust. It was the same with media and tech. They joined in based on interest and class rank. The signals and instructions don’t need to be written down or negotiated. They are in the air and discernible by the most minor signs all around us.
In that sense, they “breathed together” like a high-end professional choir. No percussionist is necessary because the beat is already known and understood by all the singers.
In the same way, we saw remarkable coordination between the federal government’s planning and that of the states. The public health departments are all on the same email chains and attend the same annual conventions. They know how each other thinks. They were all waiting for the great pandemic. They had gamed it all out many times in the past and for at least a decade and a half. The only question was when to begin the exercise in real time—the moment when the piece of music was to begin.
Vast resources are being expended today to document everything that was happening behind the scenes via emails, texts, classified documents, and much more. We are discovering remarkable truths. And yet, in the end, the real conspiracy is not something one can ever fully document. It happens as if by autopilot or magic as an extension of a shared culture, sociology, and interest. The power elite know what to believe and even what to do without the necessity of any external plotting or direction.
That’s how really effective conspiracies work.
I need new conspiracies.
All my old ones came true.
It was a Trial Run to make sure all would comply through fear with this COVID pandemic!
We saw it worked through employers among many not vaxxed as outcasts by continuing to wear a mask for another year! Yes the virus is real,but Faucci lied among many to our President and the American People! My experience through it all ,makes me bitter to this day how So many were Against President Trump looking for various solutions for US! Thanks for the post! Sorry I side tracked somewhat! ;)
No.
I’m a conspiracy theoremist. The conspiracies have been proven with Euclidean rigor.
yes....since I was a child....always questioning...always looking at things in a different way....
Let’s do science in the proper order.
Before you can be a conspiracy theorist you have to be a conspiracy hypothesist.
If you lived in an Orwellian world, like “1984”, and you were able to read it, chapter and verse, as you lived it in real life, would you not be prone to distrust most everyone and everything? Would you not explain Big Brother’s policies in the non-reality terms you’ve come to realize?
Well, my friends, that is where we are. Conspirators will conspire and get away with it. Conspiracy theorists know the truth of what is going on. Conspiracy theorists are truly realists who have learned to live suspiciously and read between the lines.
No, because everything the left labels one as a *conspiracy theorist* over turns out to be true.
I’m just prescient.
the result is a form of mind control that has people refusing to believe anything beyond a "trusted source" or mass consensus and allows a lot of cover for evil deeds done by government
The COVID scam is a perfect example of this; blame china for releasing the virus that caused a pandemic, (labs and wet markets blah blah) which helped cover the fact that the "Pandemic" data was falsified to create a torrent of fear and a tsunami of funding for big pharma racketeering .....and the entire world fell for it , its a never ending pattern in history
Don’t worry, the “Fact Checking” industry has proven the old ones are false so you can go back and re-visit the conspiracy graveyard anytime
It never ceases to amaze me how people don't even know their own form of government.
Problem - COVID scam
Reaction - create a torrent of fear
Solution - a tsunami of funding for big pharma racketeering
It's about so much more than money this time.
Congratulations, You are Now Hackable Animals
When you act like sheep someone, somewhere, is going to treat you as one.
I am just a person that notices trends and applies critical thinking unlike the useful idiots of the democrat party.
Remember, the sheep are the ones who get sheered.
I would suggest if you applied critical thinking skills on the top ten stories of the day....more than half would have ‘holes’ in the facts. The decline of journalism and critical thinking skills being taught in college....brought this problem to our frontdoor step.
The same applies to our form of government.
That beat, the Constitution, has to come from within
and Mr. Tucker is missing the beat.
If you can grasp one concept yet deny the other, is that evidence of cognitive dissonance simply because you don’t want to accept that you’ve been lied to all of your life and have been led to believe in a false form of government so you could be sheered like sheep? /rhetorical question
Hello. I am a conspiracy theorist, and here’s why:
1. bodies dont bounce in the direction from wheence the bullet came.
2. a 6 foot by 6 foot air force officer with all the shoulder salad would not travel to an 8 year old’s home to convince hiim otherwise of seeing a ufo land in the area.
3. the gulff of tonkin ship attack was no major threat buut became the uss maine ca 1960s.
4. the kids that diisappeared from the back of a smmall airfield in Arkansas..
5. 9/11 was all Saudi.
6. the democrats think Putin is doing a lousy job.
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