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Conspiracy Theories and Webs of Mistrust

By Mark Antony Rossi

Conspiracy theories have been all the rage in the modern era for about a hundred years. But I am not interested in paranormal conspiracies on boogeyman, Big Foot, UFO’s or the Loch Ness Monster. There’s no hidden agenda in these tales. It’s not unreasonable to logically reach for a missing link or a biological entity from a vast distance in galactic space.

I am more concerned about the sub-rosa theories that revolve around certain cultural groups supposedly capable of pulling strings to rule the world. Such ominous theories often rely upon forged documents, altered histories or discredited publications to support the unsupportable: one group can save the world while another is fast trying to destroy it.

Another set of conspiracy theories is purely engaged in government cover-up and assassination. These theories thrive on the public conscience seeking to erode good will with the belief that democracy is a useless exercise since everything is already fixed. How convenient but also how intellectually idiotic. The very second you adhere to these theories you give yourself the ultimate excuse and begin divorce proceedings from personal responsibility.

Even the keenest minds can fall for the cultural theories which are complex masquerades for hatred and prey upon people tainted by shades of prejudice. The government theories appear to manufactured by groups seeking to seduce common people into accepting the system is rigged. This deliberate undermining of free societies is a form of sophisticated propaganda meant to lower public participation in the electoral process.

Public opinion manipulation doesn’t require drugs or television screens to hold court on revolutionary action. The toughest battle is the struggle during the war of ideas. Words pregnant with multiple meanings yet a decidedly singular result are often the most lethal weapons. Chemicals and melodrama have a short shelf life. Immunity builds against hallucinations and holographic happiness. But dastardly theories of dark hope and fractured truths continue to pose the highest threats to
the lands of liberty.

People are intelligent. People en mass are a poisoned lot swayed by unfiltered emotion determined to carve out justice in the most unjust manner. They don’t want a gun or a knife or a reason. They want permission to act like devils today and angels tomorrow. Careful the tales you weave. The web you cast will eventually ensnare you and your kind.

About the Author: Mark Antony Rossi is a poet, playwright and author of the bioethics volume “Dark Tech” now available from Amazon. His most recent plays have been produced in Liverpool and New York.

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