What’s with all the CONSPIRACY THEROISTS?!

Tue, 12 Jul 2022

People who demonize or ridicule “conspiracy theorists” have, in my opinion aimed their sights in the wrong direction.

What creates a conspiracy theory?

Obfuscation, misdirection, gas lighting and outright lies.

I would suggest that conspiracy theories are not and were not rampant among Black people until we came in contact with Europeans. When living in a society where yes is yes, no is no, and truth is truth (NOT subjective – MY truth and YOUR truth), then there is absolutely no need for “conspiracy theories” because the person or populace knows fairly accurately, what’s ACTUALLY going on.

I believe conspiracy and conspiracy theories are European and Western constructs – or byproducts if you will of societies that at their foundation are built upon and revere untruths, falsehoods and lies.

Some theories turn out to be pure B.S. and others turn out to be true (a phenomenon that is becoming far more prevalent). But what is true about ALL of them is that the root of the theories are ALL the same! The pursuit of the TRUTH, or put another way, a desire to make something make sense that, according the narrative we are given, makes ABSOLUTELY no sense whatsoever!

Example (in terms of Black people, we repeat the mantra): 

“The police are here to protect and serve.”

Therefore we are COMPLETELY LOST when it comes to reconciling that narrative with their ACTIONS! For example, filling an unarmed Black man (Jayland Walker), with SIXTY bullets in SIX seconds, and then handcuffed him as he lay dead or dying – while bringing in alive a white man who had just murdered SEVEN people and wounded over TWO DOZEN others.

Or

“Justice is blind and we are all the same in the eyes of the law.”

Same principle of confusion as stated about the police.

The problem is the foundational premise, which is the narrative itself. If the narrative is accepted, then NOTHING ANY of these entities do will EVER make, even REMOTELY, any kind of sense! 

“If one’s foundational premise is flawed, then anything that comes FROM that premise will be equally flawed if not more so.”

But...

Try replacing THAT foundational premise with THIS one:

“When it comes to the police and the “justice” systems; their jobs are to terrorize, harm, subjugate, oppress and murder Black people.”

SUDDENLY, like a thousand watt bulb turning on at once in a room that was originally pitch black - their actions make ABSOLUTE SENSE and LINE UP based upon THAT premise!

Let’s say for the sake of argument that what I’ve stated above about the purposes of those entities is not what was stated (though I personally believe it TOTALLY is), then that doesn’t change the fact that many Black people will develop alternate theories about the purposes and goals, NOT based upon a desire to create something out of whole cloth or thin air, but to somehow reconcile the two things for the purposes of congruence. 

The other option being of course, the cognitive dissonance that many of our people have unfortunately succumbed to.

I once heard someone say (I can’t recall whom), that “If you want to know the GOALS of an organization, DO NOT go by, or pay attention to their stated goals, charter or mission statement - look at their consistent outcomes, and I emphasize – CONSISTENT OUTCOMES – and you will know the ACTUAL goal and purpose of the organization.” 

Hopefully, as you consider this and various areas of life, whether on a micro or macro level, another thousand watt bulb just went off.