An American friend of mind told me recently that he didn't believe any information that his government conveyed. Particularly regarding the COVID vaccine. How can we find answers to its safety if we can't trust the source of the information?
Those who are curious discover what they think is the truth through exhaustive investigation using critical thinking skills. They look at events with more discernment, with the ability to ask penetrating questions. That leaves us with even more information to sift through.
Regarding the vaccine, some people think they're better off because they got the vaccine and the multiple boosters that come with it. Others insist they're better off because they didn't put an unknown substance into their veins leading to unknown medical consequences.
In relief, I may not come down with a vaccine-related illness or COVID if I've had my shot (but I can still contract COVID having been vaccined), but there are a multitude of other chemically manufactured illnesses to contract through the very air I breath and the food I eat, let alone a government that can dictate my freedom, abscond with my bank account and put me in jail if they so desire. In the end, my knowing the truth about the vaccine isn't going to change the guy's opinion down the street any more than I can change the way the government and big business operate. No conspiracy theorists, no lengthy demonstrations, nor prophet from God has been able to change the system thus far.
Alex Jones is a well-known conspiracy theorist on everything from the moon landing to the Sandy Hook school shooting. He is an example of someone obsessively fixated on the 'truth.' He has some truths to share, but if he really wants to convince people of cover-ups, lies, government collusion and murders, why present the information in such a nutty fashion as to make himself unbelievable? That in itself it suspect. As if telling others the truth in such a way will turn people away from the truth. A government mis-information tactic. The CIA is very smart at manipulating the public and have imposters in every level of society. They've been doing it since the 50's. After 9/11, Jones was getting more attention on mainstream media, but he ruined his reputation for good with his manic, spitting, eye-popping demeanor and rant over the ownership of guns. He squandered his credibility. Many times I've told people that I don't believe an official investigation only to be told I'm listening to too much Alex Jones. In the end, he was sued by the families of Sandy Hook after he publicly denied it happened. He lost in court and now owes the families millions of dollars.
In order for an event to be declared true or false, as in the Jones case, go straight to the source and find out the details. Talk to those who said they lost a child. Go to the school where it presumably happened and see if there are any identifying gunshot holes in the walls/floors/ceiling. Talk to witnesses, emergency responders, firefighters, policemen, neighbours, other school kids. Did Alex Jones do that? No, he didn't, he just proclaimed it a hoax.
What about all the other school shootings? Are they a hoax? And why is just the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax for Jones? There are hundreds of school shootings a year in the States. Sometimes the conspiracies that people are positive about are just as fake as the lies the government puts forth and there are many arguments amongst conspiracy theorists. But why the government would manufacture some lie about a lunatic kid that goes off and shoots people doesn't make any sense.
Unfortunately, we have been desensitized to war, assault and rape, but ever since the advent of television we've been manipulated for one reason or another. Blood and gore on television de-sensitizes us to a world of blood and gore. Collectively, we are one person being manipulated and turned into a monster in Frankenstein's laboratory. What will we be like once we're set free?
When I was a child, there wasn't the violence with guns, but there also weren't the violent video games, internet porn, the gory/sexually violent/brutally graphic movies, the widespread drug addiction and homelessness, the lack of social support, the unfair law and privatized prisons, the breakdown in morality and social values, the anger, the unparalleled inequality and agreed, the destruction of family, the expoitation of children and the near anomie we're living with today. Nobody trusts the government because most of them are seen as a bunch of lying, untruthworthy, thieving crooks. Everyone has a different opinion and everyone thinks their opinion is the correct one, so there is also no concensus.
Viewing old videos and photos of black neighborhoods, men weren't walking around gangbanging, loitering on street corners selling drugs, robbing stores, stabbing strangers, shooting at each other, thug-walking and carving up neighborhoods into territories. There was segregation and racism, but within their own black neighborhoods, in their own society, there was normalcy and perhaps some joy, self-respect, family structure, honor, and by the looks of their musical venues and musical geniuses, a helluva lot of dancing and fun on the weekends. Of course, there were many problems, many, but has life improved for them now that they're 'free' and integrated? The new black is the poor white trash addicted to meth and fentanyl. One theory of Jones is that the American government deliberately destroyed prosperous black neighborhoods, i.e. Tulsa, in order to destroy their rising prosperity. Crack cocaine served the gov't very well in that regard. So, yes, there are conspiracies. If you believe more than two people got together to commit a crime, that's a conspircy theory. If you can prove it, it's no longer a theory, it's a fact.
Taking anything to Alex Jones' level of hysteria makes him suspect. If one could comfortably stand in front of a roomful of parents who have lost their children to a shooter and tell them you're skeptical, then you have biggers cajones, or a smaller heart than imagined. Everthing has a degree of untruthfulness to it, there is no element of 100% truth except at the most basic level. The earth is round. The sky is blue. But even the earth being round was debated for a few decades.
In the end, does it make us any happier to feel we're going to live a few years longer because we got the vaccine, if everyday living doesn't bring us much satisfaction? If we're angry? Or depressed? Or broke and living on the street? If the world's on the brink of disaster? And if, at the same time we're desperately trying to save lives, others are being slaughtered, what kind of a world are we living in?
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