{"id":65996,"date":"2023-10-21T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65996"},"modified":"2023-10-21T06:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:34:59","slug":"some-call-it-conspiracy-theory-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65996","title":{"rendered":"Some Call It Conspiracy Theory \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some Call It Conspiracy Theory \u2013 Part 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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There are certain assumptions that are applied to anyone labelled a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d\u2014and all of them are fallacies. Indeed, the term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d is nothing more than a propaganda construct designed to silence debate and censor opinion on a range of subjects. Most particularly, it is used as a pejorative to marginalise and discredit whoever challenges the pronouncements and edicts of\u00a0the State<\/a>\u00a0and of the\u00a0Establishment<\/a>\u2014that is, the public and private entities that control the State and that profit from the State.<\/p>\n

Those of us who have legitimate criticisms of government and its institutions and representatives, who are\u00a0therefore labelled<\/a>\u00a0\u201cconspiracy theorists,\u201d face a dilemma. We can embrace the term and attempt to redefine it or we can reject it outright. Either way, it is evident that the people who weaponise the \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d label will continue to use it as long as it serves their propaganda purposes.<\/p>\n

One of the most insidious aspects of the \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d fabrication is that the falsehoods associated with the term have been successfully seeded into the public\u2019s consciousness. Often, propagandists need do no more than slap this label on the targeted opinion and the audience will immediately dismiss that viewpoint as a \u201clunatic conspiracy theory.\u201d Sadly, this knee-jerk reaction is usually made absent any consideration or even familiarity with the evidence presented by that so-called \u201clunatic conspiracy theorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the reason why \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d label\u00a0was created<\/a>. The State and its propagandists do not want the public to even be aware of inconvenient evidence, let alone to examine it. The challenging evidence is buried under the \u201cwild conspiracy theory\u201d label, thereby signalling to the unsuspecting public that they should automatically reject all of the offered facts and evidence.<\/p>\n

There are a number of components that collectively form the conspiracy theory canard. Let\u2019s break them down.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Call It Conspiracy Theory \u2013 Part 1 There are certain assumptions that are applied to anyone labelled a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d\u2014and all of them are fallacies. Indeed, the term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d is nothing more than a propaganda construct designed to silence debate and censor opinion on a range of subjects. Most particularly, it is used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,2370,29841,26071,655,1309],"class_list":["post-65996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-iain-davis","tag-narrative-management","tag-propaganda","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65997,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65996\/revisions\/65997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}