The reason conspiracy theories took off this past decade is that increasing numbers of people realized that the mainstream narrative is frequently (mostly?) deceptive if not outright false.
Hillary Clinton decried the circumstance of having more than 3 networks and a handful of national newspapers because it makes it difficult to control narrative. Remember the good ol’ days when we all looked up to Big Broth… I mean Walter Cronkite and his word was bond?
You don’t get to be in the mainstream media (these authors work for publications owned by Hearst Communications and G/O Media — big mainstream publishing groups), propping up pro-war, anti-human rights propaganda for DECADES on end and THEN credibly complain about conspiracy theories that undermine narrative control.
Ok, so Pizzagate is an obvious joke… why not mention the dozens of actual conspiracies between powerful interests in government, industry, entertainment and journalism?
Either because you’re not very thoughtful or you know where your bread is buttered.
How many times has the mainstream media narrative itself been the source of an easily falsifiable conspiracy theory?
How many false flag events that ended in a MAJOR military operation?
How many “the Russians are coming” stories?
How many BOLD and boldly false headlines have we seen go either uncorrected or quietly corrected?
I live in Vermont so I remember when the Russians disrupted our power grid and I froze to death, using only an American flag as a blanket against the Russian-borne cold-front. I also remember when we went to war in Syria to depose Assad… and then somehow we were actually there to fight ISIS… even though it turns out we armed ISIS earlier to help depose Assad.
If you pay any attention whatsoever to the mainstream narrative, you will almost immediately notice impossible contradictions. THAT kind of lazy and purposely deceptive reporting is where to lay the blame for increasingly outlandish conspiracy theories. YOU DID THIS!
If this was a food critic’s piece it would say “wow isn’t it crazy that people even like hamburgers? McDonald’s food is gross so therefore you’d have to be really nutty to ever eat a hamburger, amirite?”
Huh?
