Barbelith Underground > Conversation > Please Get Over The Invisibles

It looks like a matter of finding your place on the continuum from random independent action to The Conspiracy. Personally, I think stupidity, laziness and greed control the world's baddies as effectively as any Archons or Ickean lizard-men; they're all acting on the same wave-length, so they'll act the same way, recognize each other and make (usually temporary) alliances. Traffic flows smoothly along the shining path of least resistance.

It looks like warnings about electronic voting and voter harassment came true, but it's not clear fixing them would have changed any outcomes. Kerry and Bush carried populous states by larger margins than would have been affected by fraud or error. Local conspiracies bred their own resistance. Democrats were prepared for Republican intimidation and they mostly counteracted it. States that had paper trails for Diebold machines seem to have confirmed the counts. I may be wrong about any or all of the above, but I think that's how it went.

There was certainly a conspiracy to entice Americans into a Middle Eastern crusade, but the conspirators--PNAC and others--have been fairly open about their plans. PNAC published their positions as early as the 1990s. By now everybody who cares knows about Leo Strauss.

But all that will come to nothing--democracy doesn't grow on the point of a sword (how can Iraqi parties campaign under martial law lasting to the elections?). Conspiracy (small "c") is a human activity. Humans fuck up. Only mythical--notional at best--superhuman beings like Archons, Deros and lizard men could run a Conspiracy that controls everything and doesn't fuck up. Except in The Invisibles they still do fuck up.

Conspiracies and conspiracy theories are inherently flawed because the ideas that govern them are closed. All of a conspiracy's actions are governed by those fixed ideas, while from the outside all events are attributed to the conspiracy. When reality sufficiently disagrees with a conspiracy it collapses; when it disagrees with a conspiracy theorist, that person is certifiably nuts.

Thanks, Perfect Tommy, for that purple link. It's better than the one I've found that shades only the states. People are hypnotizing themselves and/or others on the basis of that stupid Red/Blue map. Edward Tufte would have a field day with it. It's great for propaganda because it makes the US look big and red. Real scary. But it tells you nothing about population density, closeness of the vote or even electoral college votes. It makes Montana look like it has more votes than New Jersey, e.g.