Truth Doesn't Feel Like That

The Problem With Conspiracy Theories

Just went round with a friend over the chemtrails conspiracy theory. This theory has morphed through several phase as conspiracy theorists searched for a reason why airplanes high in the atmosphere leave vapor trails. As more and more planes take to the air, fly higher and mount engines that run hotter, they leave more and more vapor trails in the sky, which those who enjoy making people paranoid are using to some effect.

High flying jets leave vapor trails. That what
happens when you pass a hot engine through cold air.

Conspiracy theories are supposed to be some kind of secret knowledge that only a few smart people are able to figure out. What they mostly do is bring out the arrogance in people convinced they are among the elite minds of our day. What conspiracy theories actually do is deceive, and I think this is more dangerous that if the theories were at all true. The point of a good conspiracy theory is to get people to (1) believe lies without examining them too closely, (2) divert their attention to actual evil being perpetrated in the world and (3) make them believe the forces of evil are more organized and powerful than they, in fact, are. Evil is out there, but the devil is not being quiet about it. If you look at evil, Nazism explained exactly what it would do in Hitler's book Mein Kampf, the communists, the facists and even the progressive have all clearly stated what they want to do to us in the name of control. In every case they wish to rig the governments of nations in order to control people. Even the terrible Masonic Lodge is a paper tiger when you come right down to it. A Southern Good Old Boy Network is in many ways a more powerful thing than a bunch of freemasons.

B-17s over Germany leaving "chemtrails'?

Chemtrails are a uselessly expensive idea. The point is to terrorize people into handing over power to government in order to save us all from global climate change - which is a preposterous idea. If they actually were to spray sulfates in the atmosphere and could stop global warming, they'd crow about it in every media outlet. Except they know the whole global warming notion is a fraud so why try to do anything about it. The point is to frighten people into believing this crap and handing over their freedom in exchange for feeling like they are virtuous and that somebody is actually doing something. If they fixed global warming they'd lose power.

The chemtrails hoax is a mysterious natural phenomenon looking for a conspiracy to explain it. Those who subscribe to the theory of chemtrails have been all over the map in ascribing a nefarious purpose behind high altitude jet contrails.  They've speculated that the purpose for commercial airline companies to risk gigantic class action lawsuits for doing it was everything from solar radiation management, weather modification, psychological manipulation, human population control, or biological or chemical warfare. Now they are saying it's climate control and Bill Gates is behind it. They cook up stories and statistics that show that chemtrails are behind every sort of  respiratory illness and any other likely scary health problem that can be stuffed into the narrative that some evil organization like SMERSH or SPECTRE or HYDRA or the Republican Party is trying to do us harm.

The people behind the frenetic spread of these hysterical conspiracy theories join the gullible lemming hoard because it makes them feel special. Those who inspire belief in such theories see themselves as being the movers and shakers of history and their confidence in their own hubris helps encourage conspiracy theories. In fact, the apparent shared mission of so many powerful people and organizations is not any sort of super-intelligent organizational effort. It's simply shared lust for power. The wealthy elites desire power for fear the masses are going to someday rise up and murder them in their beds. They see a road to power and control and they are all crammed onto it, riding like fury to their own destruction. It's a case of a common desire shared by people who are looking to protect themselves rather than depend on God to work all things together for good in their lives.

The devil wishes to create the illusion that humans can be in charge of history. It reminds me of a scene in the Disney animated movie Robin Hood, where a bunch of rhino soldiers charge into a bunch of tents and the sheriff of Nottingham and Little John wind up on top of the tents charging back and forth atop the rhinos totally out of control.I suspect the devil is laughing at those who think they have it all figured out and are going to seize for themselves the power they need so they can ditch God and forge their own destinies.

Progressives and their ilk (and I include the whole "united religions" crowd in that bunch) have seized on a narrative they think will scare the most people and now they have the proletariat charging off a socio-political-economic cliff to their own destruction. Human leaders have sat themselves atop the pile and once fancied themselves to hold the reins of power. About now, many are beginning to realize that they aren't steering anymore - that there is no steering wheel, no reins, no rudder. Democrats, for instance, thought they controlled the whole impeach the president process when they started it, but it's rapidly spinning out of control and I do believe Lucifer is enjoying their discomfiture.

The devil has taken many dry runs at destroying mankind - the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Mid-East wars were all dry runs, each and experiment leading to more and more devastation. The precursors are always the same. What Satan is running up to is a combination Civil War, World War, Genocide and global tyranny. If you examine history closely, you'll see he keeps trying the same techniques over and over. They fail, but Lucifer is every bit as deluded about the efficacy of his strategies as any modern progressive. It should work they say, because it feels right. That was precisely what the whole rebellion in heaven was about. Satan argued that free will is a mistake. Satan's case was that humans should not have free will. It would make them too much like God and that would jeopardize his own position as number 1 created being. Satan cares not about the human elites he's deluded into believing they have some kind of control over the course of history.. That ship sailed millenia ago. Now it's all chaos and conspiracies and the truth is if half these conspiracy theories were true, the various plots would cancel each other out or at the least blow up in the conspirators' faces. 

Chemtrails are just a BS distraction. A song back in the 60s had a line in it that went, "Satan, Satan is my name, confusion is my game." He's working both ends against the middle and chemtrails, big pharma, vaccine hysteria - all of it is designed to teach people to believe a lie. It feels like you have some sort of secret knowledge that makes you smarter than everyone else. It plays to people's vanity and sucks them in and makes them feel superior to the rest of us rubes.

I'm sure many of my conspiracy theory aficionado friends are feeling quite superior to me right now, being as they are, in possession of secret knowledge. But Truth doesn't make you feel like that. If what you believe makes you feel smug and superior to everyone else, you're probably embracing something other than the Truth.

© 2019 by Tom King

Berkely Prof Supports Bashing Rural Americans

Jackson Kernion, a University of California-Berkeley instructor and graduate student fired off a tweetstorm by posting this snotty comment on Twitter:

• I unironically embrace the bashing of rural Americans. they, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions. Some, I assume are good people. But this nostalgia for some imagined pastoral way of life is stupid and we should shame people who aren't pro-city.

He deleted the tweet after he was hit by an angry tweetstorm and later he apologized for admitting that his remarks came across as “crass and mean.” Kernion, a graduate student at UC-Berkeley, teaches philosophy courses to undergrads. Apparently he over-estimated the power of his bully pulpit.


What happened with this pampered man-child is that, sheltered in academia, he absorbed all the progressive "secret knowledge" and came to believe everybody who is anybody was privy to and agreed to the left's ultimate goals including the human hive. I've sat in on the meetings in which pro-city progressives participated and heard them fantasize about everyone living in walled cities where you have to get permission to travel outside the walls (to protect the environment from human contamination). No cars of course; only public transit. My favorite was the idea that we would all carry personal transit Id's. These could be more easily tracked as a way to know where you go as much as possible. It would aid law enforcement to keep tabs on "criminals". I always felt like the guys talking about this stuff were looking at me.

This poor schmuck just had the temerity to openly express this grand plan for proper control of the "proletariat" in plain language where the rubes could hear it. He figured enough of the herd had swallowed the pro-city kool-aid to earn him chops as one of the great thinkers of our times.

Oops. It appears that he just had an episode of premature articulation.

© 2019 by Tom King

I Feel the Way I Do - End of Conversation!

Obi Wan Kenobi was spectacularly wrong. You cannot trust your feelings
 unless you train them well with reason, repetition, and intelligence.

The Tyranny of Feelings

My liberal friends keep refusing to talk with me. Now most have no problem talking at me. Just a problem with me talking at all in self-defense. It goes like this.  (Finger points at me in roughly the shape of a gun) "I don't want to hear you talk about politics or religion today." Usually this is followed up by several little digs at me explaining how I'm a bully. That I call people names. Things like that.Then they glance around the room looking for approval from other advocates of what I call "Feelings uber alles!"  I am not allowed to answer such charges because, of course, that would be talking about religion or politics and that might make them mad so that they would be forced to retreat to a pre-designated safe space.

Then when I ask what names I've called them (other than the labels they've chosen for themselves like liberal, progressive, or leftist), they can't tell me what it was. Mostly I get, "I don't remember but it hurt my feelings." Or "I don't want to discuss it."

To cut off the conversation, they make a final statement. "I feel what I feel about politics and you feel what you feel about politics. You are not going to change how I feel, so shut up."

In my best terrible, mean bully manner, I respond in this manner. "No, you are mistaken. I don't feel about politics and religion. I think about politics and religion and my reason informs how I feel."  Most of the time I don't get past "No, I..." before being shouted down. Were I to shout down my feeling friends and loved ones in a similar manner, I'd be rightfully called down by these guys as a bully. As it is, simply offering an alternate view with accompanying facts and data which I have considered when forming my opinion, that is what is most frequently described as bullying by folks who lean left.

"And I'm not a socialist, by the way! I'm an independent."  **

"Ever voted for a Republican?"

"Are you kidding? No, Republicans are stupid bigots and they call people names. Besides, I know you watch Fox News and you haven't ever voted for a Democrat."

"Actually, I've voted for several. Usually they get kicked out of the Democrat party shortly after I voted for them, but I actually have voted for Democrats I agreed with."* 

To me, it's odd that anyone would think I should vote for someone whose policies I disagree with. This model conversation is a compilation of several dozen conversations I've actually had with my friends who espouse policies of the sort espoused by Karl Marx, leftist university professors, Progressives, Democratic Socialists, Communists, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez.

 I will always calmly and politely discuss politics and religion if you want to. If you don't, I won't. Just don't take pot shots at me and expect me to stand still and let you insinuate that I am a bully and a bigot and stand still and let you get away with that. If you think my talking about someone being a liberal or leftist or progressive or socialist, then tell me how you describe your politics. And don't give me "independent". That's disingenuous. Too often the term "independent" is used to cover for people who vote for whoever their friends tell them to vote for based on their feelings.

Part of the reasons that those who are "not conservatives" slid right and voted for Trump was because he said things they liked and their friends voted for him. I did not vote for Donald Trump. I'll be honest. I actively talked against him. I thought he was a bad candidate. Actually, I thought he was a closet Democrat.

I've been pleasantly surprised, however. Turns out he has actually governed as a conservative. He stood up to foreign bullies like China and Russia. If he's Putin's puppet, Putin forgot to attach the strings. Trump's been tougher on Russia than "Tell Vlad I'll be more flexible my second term" Obama ever was and Trump has yet to bow to any emperor or Saudi Sheik. He's appointed strong conservative judges. His FCC appointees rejected the Net Neutrality Scam. The economy is booming (which is apparently a bad thing if you listen to Democrats). I'm working now. I can pay my rent. I can say what I want, worship where and when I want, own a weapon to protect myself and my family, and write my blogs although they may be occasionally banned by the leftists over at Google and Facebook and Youtube. He's tough on trade and illegal immigration and has some good ideas for fixing the problem. I personally find that encouraging uncontrolled illegal immigration us little more than feeding the US form of slavery that is employing what Democrats once called "wetbacks". And they weren't using it as an affectionate term.

I've never advocated that anyone I disagree with should be silenced either by law or violence. I've never ridiculed anyone's religion, although I've said some harsh things about atheists who bully people of faith and environmentalists who bully anyone who disagrees with them. I have called Marxists, militant atheists, climate change evangelists, and believers in sciencism "members of religions". Members of all these faith-based groups vehemently deny they are religions. So, if the practitioners of these faiths are not religionists as said practitioners of these philosophies consistently claim, then my own claim not to have ridiculed anyone's religion stands. I am simply taking them at their word. Members of each group, have however called me names like ignorant, bigot, hater, stupid, and other epithets ugly enough that I've kicked them off the threads I post (I've got kids on my friends list for crying out loud - cool it with the profanity).

And yes, Virginia, the f-word is profanity. It is a term that would belong to rape culture if there even were such a thing.  If you want to discuss my views on politics or you post a dissenting opinion on one of my posts in the comment section, you are welcome. Just don't expect me to tamely submit to your bullying, threats or one-sided arguments. I fight hard, but fair. If it hurts your feelings that I disagree with you or offer one of my experiences explaining why I believe as I do, or recount my researches on various issues, or carefully reasoned opinions in response to your talking points, you should remember that I have forewarned you.

If you are going to need to retreat to a safe space after I answer your question, threat, abuse or diatribe, you should skip commenting on my blogs.  Thank you for reading my blog in any case. You are always welcome here and let's talk. The thing that WILL tear this country apart is refusing to talk openly and honestly and shouting down anyone who disagrees with you.


© 2019 by Tom King

*  Notably Phil Gramm and Ralph Hall when they were serving as conservative Democrats in the Congress and Senate. They had to leave the Democrat party because they didn't support the socialist agenda of their party.

 ** The characters in this sample conversation are composites of a variety of people who have unfriended me or simply quit talking to me and in no way should be construed as words belonging to any specific person. Persons attempting to do so will be prosecuted, tarred and feathered, and/or banished to Australia.