Unpacking the Great Deception

 

I am a Conspiratorialist.

This means that I cannot identify with either of the mainstream American political parties, Democrat or Republican.  I reject the left/right political spectrum. I actively ignore corporate media, having pulled the TV plug some fifteen years ago. I do not trust politicians, entertainers, sports personalities, religious leaders, pundits or any other symbol of authority. As much as possible, I avoid closed-source technology, and am thus a longtime Linux enthusiast who anxiously awaits a valid open source alternative to Android and iPhone.  I stopped using Windows ten years ago.

It means that I follow “alternative” information sources, nearly all of which are hostile to and critical of mainstream sources. Rather than blindly follow these alternative sources, I avail myself of their information and compare it to my personal body of knowledge, experience and instincts. Over the years, I’ve noticed patterns of corruption, abuse and outright evil in the authority structures on our planet, accompanied by layers of mind-control in the form of legislation, entertainment, advertising, formal education, religion and news. We humans live our lives within a Grand Spectacle that has almost nothing to do with “what’s really going on.” We've been conditioned to accept a version of reality that is literally a lie, and so my life has become an exercise in unpacking this Great Deception, hoping to replace it with something approaching Truth.

At a certain point, I realized that the Answer is spiritual – not religious, but a directly-experienced connection with All That Is.  In my early teens I discovered the prohibition against direct spiritual experience, which has forced humanity into an unnatural separation from God.  Even back then, I understood that this is the ultimate crime against our species. All the other elements of conspiracy – political, media, educational, religious, social – stem from this original separation from God.

“The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender “lonely crowds.”

― Guy Debord, quote from The Society of the Spectacle, 1967

In short:

1. We have been lied to about the nature of reality, about history, about religion, and about our capacities as human beings. 
2. Through mind-control and emotional manipulation, we have been separated from our innate human connection with God.
3. None of the “official” sources of information is to be believed or trusted, and in fact, they need to be countered on every single point that they present.

This makes me a Conspiratorialist – or, someone who endeavors to think for himself, to follow the White Rabbit, to come to his own conclusions, and to conform his life to a pattern of truthfulness rather than wallowing in lies.

This makes me, apparently, a very dangerous person.