One of the number one complaints about conspiracy theories and/or theorists is that the information is conflicting and often contradictory.That alone can easily be explained by the very fact that theorizing conspiracies is not limited to a single segment of the population or followers of a certain encompassing ideology. Basically, people will come to their own conclusions based on their experiences and belief systems. For Protestant conspiracy theorists, for instance, Queen Elizabeth was a victim of the Catholic church. For other conspiracy theorists, she was just another corrupt ruler--victim to no one but herself. That's a rather mundane example. A more extreme example is in the discussion of bloodlines. Some people believe that some bloodlines have been existence since the beginning of time and they are the ones from whom the various evil personages emerge. Some say they are Babylonian, others Jewish/Khazar and still others not even human but Reptilian.
Unfortunately, in order to compensate for these conflicting beliefs and theories people immediately assume that the other party/theory/perspective is naturally disinformation/a disinformation agent or alternately works for the CIA or some other intelligence organization. Granted, disinformation is real, and has been spoken about as a necessary tool to keep "conspiracy theorists" in check. I'm not mocking that fact. However, I am mocking the knee-jerk reaction to anything that's floating around that seems wacky or is just different than one's own perspective.
A lot of conspiracy theorizing is connecting the dots. That is how anyone can become a conspiracy theorist. What separates the amateurs from the professionals, generally, is the use of evidence to build and support an argument. Evidence, in this case, is something concrete and definite, such as an official contradicting a story, video footage etc. and not just dot-connecting because things may appear to reflect something [for the record I place myself in the amateur category because for most things in the conspiracy realm, I can only state what I believe appears to be the case]. The other thing, though, that means success or failure is the ability to appeal to a broad audience. Sometimes, this includes audience manipulation via flashy videos with little information or just books that are packed with stuff that sounds good or different--it can even be packed with "content." These last mediums in those uses should be discouraged and not supported. After all, isn't it the "Illuminati agenda" to fluff things up so that emotions are pulled to attract or repel you to or from something, and books are written that may seem good but are actually quite lacking in substantial argument and proof?
One of the other predominate complaints about conspiracy theories and/or theorists is that everything is taken to be a conspiracy with varying degrees of who is in on it. One of the most blatant examples of this that continues to this day is the blaming of HAARP for every single weather anomaly (or phenomenon) or natural disaster. It doesn't matter that no one can specifically narrow down what HAARP can actually do--that only gives fodder for HAARP being responsible for every major natural event. The generic suspicion about HAARP is justified, and it probably does involve some kind of weather control. It just gets odd when every thing becomes the result of HAARP. That is what, unfortunately, shuts people out to any mention of HAARP altogether. Some people don't realize that natural disasters have always occurred, and that some events are just weird and unexplainable. These used to be known (and I guess are still known) as Fortean events (also collectively and categorically known as Forteana). Weird things have been seen in the sky and weird things including goop, colors, blood, animals etc. have rained from the sky since, it seems, recorded time.
What also needs to be taken into account too is the very real fact that there are mentally ill people. Conspiracy theories, New Age stuff and the paranormal tends to attract them a great deal. What's more is that extreme paranoia is a subcategory/type of schizophrenia and usually these delusions involve government agents and spying and chip implants and the like. There are common delusions, oddly enough. For instance, it is very common to hear a paranoid schizophrenic explain that something is inside their television recording them or watching them somehow. One symptom of generic schizophrenia is obsessive writing. Conspiracy theorizing and publishing fits that lifestyle well. Mental illness of this nature is rarely subtle, though. It can generally be discerned when someone is just misguided or strongly believes in something and when someone is delusional. But if one doesn't come in contact with the person it can be masked in their productions or writings, to a degree. Unfortunately, mental illness is what is used to label conspiracy theorists the most, namely with the quip of time to put on my tinfoil hat. It's just a thought-terminating cliche used to silence an individual and to crush any chance of his making a point.
So, why am I even making this post? What's the point? The point is to hopefully get more people aware of what they are viewing and accepting as fact or "good information." It's too often that I have seen people spread around stuff that is contradictory, or speculate on something that has no substantial argument. There is also a trend in believing people who claim to be ex-Illuminati or former Freemasons or the victims of government mind control and the like. I would argue that what any such types say should be taken with a grain of salt. Like, how many apostate 33 degree Masons are there? Why is it so common to quit after having gone that far? I've even heard of higher degrees! Likewise, in the past I have read a debate concerning whether or not some guy had actually been a Manchurian supersoldier in the past, someone that was clearly lying and concocting fiction for the purposes of money-making (or was merely delusional) yet people couldn't decide this for themselves despite the fact that this super smart, super strong guy refused to demonstrate any of his abilities.
I just hope, if anything, I can instill a healthy sense of skepticism so that information can be better filtered to weed out the "junk" theories that are floating around (yes, in the end it's all subjective...the unfortunate rub).





























