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The Age of ‘Conspireality’
When the World is Upside Down™ anything is possible. I have spent my entire life discounting conspiracies even as I also subscribe to the aphorism “Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get you”. The craziness that has “transformed” the media-academia-Big Tech-Big Business-politics of America (if not America itself) makes conspiracy credible as an explanation for adverse events.
To that end, I have created a new word to describe the unlikely or difficult to believe combinations that turn out to be sufficiently credible that one is well-advised to act as if it is true: “conspireality.” This is distinct from legal conspiracy which is a factual finding. Why do we need such a word? Because we have entered into a time where we need to set aside our naïveté about the weaponization of public and private systems against persons engaged in wrongthink and wrongspeak.
A friend on Facebook posted the following meme:
The reality created around us is made of lies. They are a planned narrative for global domination by an elite few.
Before public dialogue about The Great Reset, such talk was the stuff of Black Helicopters or a Dan Brown novel. But those of us who saw America too resilient for this type of thing have been chastened by events. So we live in the age of conspireality; something beyond conspiracy theory and short of conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt. If we don’t think in terms of conspireality today we risk losing what’s left of America and the hope of a restored democratic republic.
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That is one brilliant word. And very needed at the moment.
The problem for me is that it means living in a kind of limbo. In spite of my following all my usual routines, there’s this fog that I can’t get rid of that is oppressive, soupy and annoying. I work hard at it not taking away the pleasures of life, but it’s hard.
New words are needed when the old words become meaningless. Conspiracy theory has been misused and over-used.
When a flock of birds or a school of fish all change direction in a matter of seconds are they communicating or are they just reacting to each other?
When the corporate media’s largest advertising segment is the pharmaceutical industry, would any of the birdfish producers, writers or on-air talent, venture away to talk about how vaccine mandates might be a bad thing, or lend any credence to a treatment that isn’t in the revenue stream of brought to you by Pfizer? Career suicide. Just stupid. No one has to plan anything or conspire.
Are they ever going to delve into the drug cocktails the vast majority of school shooters were being served, or will it always be about the guns they used? I’ve never seen the and advertisement for any kind of gun or ammunition so until Colt, Remington and Big Ammo up their game by a factor of a billion, it ain’t gonna happen.
Ever notice how professionals, doctors, lawyers, reporters etc. never besmirch others in their profession unless they have a personal dispute- and often then, still in private? They are protecting themselves. So not a conspiracy per se, a preexisting agreement.
When I cite anything like this, saying for example the media pushes fear ( which helps them get attention) and covers for Big Pharma, and someone claims that’s a “conspiracy theory”, I know I’m arguing with either a committed partisan or a moron.
Too long. How about “conspirafact”?
Be not afraid! It is not given to man to understand his own heart (without a good deal of trouble, at least), let alone the hearts of other individuals, institutions or polities. As for knowledge of important things like God, we can grasp but the shadow of the shadow. The lure and trap of the enlightenment was to find one tiny sliver of reality – the material world – from which it is possible to wrest (always contingent) facts, then consider that the only True model of Truth.
The fog is real – but it is not a bad thing. It’s just the human condition and a reminder that creation and beyond is more wonderful than we can imagine. And a reminder that we should not put our trust in princes. Or journalists.
What a reassuring comment, @genferei! Thanks.
Yeah… I can relate to this. For me, I have these ideas that COULD BE possibilities, but I don’t really know if they are true, so I don’t dismiss them, but I don’t hold onto them too tightly.
It sometimes feels like I’m being TOO open minded and my brain will fall out. But I think it’s more like playing cards where you are trying to collect 3 or 4 of a kind and you are picking things up like maybe this is a strategy, but if it doesn’t pan out, you aren’t so invested in it that you can’t let it go.
It does feel like being in limbo. I think it’s deepened my faith, though. That’s ground zero of reality for me.
How about “Premature Truth”?
I like “spoilers”.
My father-in-law and husband were in a terrible accident when my husband was ten years old. They were driving home on a dark rural road around nine o’clock, and my father-in-law saw headlights coming at him in his lane. He swerved just in time. It was a terrible accident, and my father-in-law and my husband were hurt but mostly okay.
I’ve always used that story to tell my kids, “Believe what you see. It’s your incredulousness that will get you killed every time. You need to trust your instincts and reflexes. If something doesn’t feel right, get out of there.”
I think that’s what you’re saying.
It’s a tough call, to guess what might materialize as a real threat and what will simply go away.
I think this is how the “preppers” live–with one eye on the government all the time.
If we simply ignore all of the possibilities presented, we’re making a mistake. Sometimes good information will come from very unlikely sources.
We should be evaluating information for its objectivity and plausibility, not its source.
That said, it’s very difficult to get people to stop what they are doing and pay attention to imminent threats. People have obligations that keep them from changing course.
Perhaps just establishing the new word alerts people to the possibility. It plants a seed, as the old timers’ would say. Perhaps that’s enough.
Conspiracies? This was Dr. Michael Yeadon formerly of Pfizer in a telephone interview in early April of this year. He says boosters will be never ending. Followed by Boris Johnson announcing yesterday that boosters may be never ending.
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April 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Dr. Michael Yeadon, Pfizer’s former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory who spent 32 years in the industry leading new medicines research and retired from the pharmaceutical giant with “the most senior research position” in his field, spoke with LifeSiteNews in a telephone interview.
“[With such a system], here is an example of what they could make you do, and I think this is what they’re going to make [people] do.
“You could invent a story that is about a virus and its variations, its mutations over time. You could invent the story and make sure you embed it through the captive media, make sure that no one can counter it by censoring alternative sources, then people are now familiar with this idea that this virus mutates, which it does, and that it produces variants, which is true [as well], which could escape your immune system, and that’s a lie.
“But, nevertheless, we’re going to tell you it’s true, and then when we tell you that it’s true and we say ‘but we’ve got the cure, here’s a top-up vaccine,’ you’ll get a message, based on this one global, this one ID system: ‘Bing!’ it will come up and say ‘Dr. Yeadon, time for your top-up vaccine. And, by the way,’ it will say ‘your existing immune privileges remain valid for four weeks. But if you don’t get your top-up vaccine in that time, you will unfortunately detrimentally be an “out person,” and you don’t want that, do you?’ So, that’s how it’ll work, and people will just walk up and they’ll get their top-up vaccine.”
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UK Prime Minister Announces New Definition for Vaccinated Will Require Triple Jabs and Boosters
November 16, 2021 | Sundance | 248 Comments
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a press conference yesterday [Video Here] where he announced the U.K. COVID mitigation policy will now require citizens of the U.K. to undergo booster jabs. The government approved definition of “fully vaccinated” will now require the citizens to take booster shots in order to remain compliant.
Comrades, the collective aspirations of the Ministry of COVID Health, have determined the booster program is the best way to transfer taxpayer funds to the pharmaceutical corporations who are now in control of government. Our community health COVID authorization passport is now contingent upon our obedience to an undetermined number of ongoing jabs.
Just a series of coincidences, no doubt.
But wait, there’s more:
Oh, and what judge was just randomly reassigned for Carter Page vs James B. Comey, et al?
Why, that would be Judge James Boasberg.
OK, creative, but they conspire. Of course some just take orders, the media for instance, and China just has to make sure Biden doesn’t confront them, which he can’t do because they helped make him rich. Big tech just wants a global market so they’re putty in China’s hands because they haven’t a clue what they don’t understand. Most Democrats just go along because they think local politics which some pay attention to and national politics are extensions of the same process. Maybe we do need a new word.
OMG 😱
This is a horror movie.