Conspiracy-Themed

That her mood shifts with each new installment is the problem.

She is at the mercy
of (a) cynical manipulators,
(b) the hapless deluded, or else
(c) a maligned coalition of truthtellers who just can’t catch a break.

I vote b, honestly. But I don’t know. I’m forced to remain agnostic on principle, or perhaps out of respect.

Pushed into camps.
Rehearsing new catechisms.
Unlearning each other’s languages.

Are we divided to be conquered? If so, by whom?
If there is no cabal, then we are conquered by our own shadow.
[No, that’s too poetic to be real.]

“Know the outcomes, and you’ll see the journey” sayeth David Icke.
And so you shall.
But this way of thinking invites confirmation bias,
[actually, it is the literal definition thereof]
which isn’t to say that every conclusion one draws will be false,
but it opens one’s door to manipulation.

I’ll sell you a fantasy future, you’ll paint a journey inside the lines, call it insight.

To suffer is to exist in a state apart from reality (misapprehension, misalignment). So say the Buddhists. Yet, ‘reality’ is interpreted, constructed; up for debate. So say the post-modernists.

Can I go inside?
Align, perpetually,
To essential truths?
Am I doing something other than daydreaming, when I feel that I’ve grounded myself?

Perhaps a ‘right relationship’ to all of this,
for me,
for now,
would look like distance.

Or is consciousness a grand seeing;
I, merely doing my duty.
Life being itself.

So sayeth various people, myself included (at times).

If there is a cabal,
does it follow that I should oppose it?
no, it truly does not.

With regard to the age old question of whether or not the masses should be given complete freedom of self-government, I can understand that there are multiple perspectives. My instinct, as a more-or-less common person, is to say that yes, we should be given complete freedom, and therefore complete knowledge. But knowing what I do about human psychology, mob mentality, etc., I can certainly understand why a hypothetical oligarchy at the helm of this ship – some collection of families who’ve been in control for 500+ years – would say hell no. I think they’d not only FEEL justified, but also they’d BE justified (from a certain perspective) in establishing and maintaining a means of control over ‘us’.

Are they wrong?
…in a moral sense, sure, I guess… maybe… unless they’re actually the ones keeping this ship afloat. Perhaps they’re the Dr. Who in this equation.

We see naught but the shadow, and we project our own zero-sum, conflict-based mentality onto it. We assume we’re being corralled and maligned. Perhaps we’re being parented.

But what the fuck do I know.