When coincidence becomes conspiracy …

16/02/2009 by AJ.

Those of you who blog will know what it’s like.  You go to put some comments down, and then get distracted from doing so.  The moment passes.  And then you wonder whether your opinion was worth a damn in the first place.

And so it has gone on for the end bit of 2008, and now the first six weeks of 2009.  However, a combination of circumstances and happenings have made me realise that, actually, YES, it is worth me plugging in and putting down my views.  The main driver being that there are people out there who need a wake-up call.

No-one else in our sector of appreciation is going to do it.  So, it’s down to me to put my head above the parapet and tell you what’s going on.  Hopefully, I won’t be just preaching to the converted.

I’ve been trying to find this image online for months; suddenly it just fell into my lap, and then started me thinking… do the fans of stuff like STAR WARS actually UNDERSTAND the context of the franchise they idolise?

The STAR WARS franchise is about a bunch of rebels ensuring that a totalitarian superstate is undermined and destroyed, so that liberty can be restored and all beings can live in peace, doing what they want to do, so long as it doesn’t have a bad effect on anyone else, and doesn’t create bad feeling.

It’s black and white in its morality - freedom and liberty GOOD, totalitarianism and police state BAD.  It’s a truism in so much fiction in our extraordinary world of TV and film.  You normally become a fan of something because it resonates with your subconscious.  The morality is something you sign up to, and therefore you would think this would be something that, come the time in the real world, you would want to help to protect and defend in a similar manner.

One of my favourite shows is THUNDERBIRDS - a philanthropist, with no agenda but plenty of money, decides that his family should devote themselves to save lives, rescue those in danger, for no other reward other than “job done”.  Should I ever be in such a situation, I would do the same.

Going over to reality, we set up the Cult TV Festival because we believed fans deserved something better.  With the devotion and support given to money-harvesting operations across the UK that have taken all the fan business in recent years, it’s time to admit we were WRONG.  People get what they deserve.  They deserve to pay more for less.

And I suppose in some respects that’s where I should leave fandom and anything else that comes into view.  However, as I have, for the last two and a half years, lifted up one stone after another, I realised that there was a lot more to see than the version of reality being painted by the BBC Six O’Clock News.

I simply had to keep quiet about these sort of things until such times as I was more widely aware of the subjects involved.  This is when you realise that life doesn’t ever give you what you WANT, but instead what you NEED.

And so, a big thank-you to all those trolls during the days of the Cult TV Festival who came online and made me appreciate that you have no rhyme nor reason for doing what you do - you just get PLEASURE from doing it; it serves no function and gets you nowhere.  You just get a kick from doing it; causing pain and upset.  It actually now serves me well as I stand up to be counted.  Name calling won’t get you anywhere these days  unless you have facts - and can prove those facts.

That’s where I am now.  I am sure that what I am doing is right, that there is a huge conspiracy at hand, and most people are using their own cognitive dissonance to ensure they never look into it.  Those trolls ensured I didn’t start my quest in revealing the truth to others until I was sure I was not dealing with a bunch of coincidences.

“But hang on”, I was told patronisingly before Christmas, “this is what man does.  He tries to see patterns in things, to show order in the universe.  We get disappointed if we find out things are random, not just a serious of tragic coincidences”.

Which is, unfortunately, the sign of a closed mind.  If you believe, no matter what the odds, that everything can be explained away by coincidence, you never start to twitch when the coincidences become so outlandish, so impossible to be not related, that you just swerve away from looking beyond, to potential reasons why there could be a link.  To look to lessons from history.  To ask the essential questions of “What if?” and “Who benefits?”

But, the problem is, let’s say there is a STAR WARS fan.  Let’s say that fan shuts down looking beyond the world presented on the news by simply saying “I am one of the sheep”.

So, rather than investigate why someone they know has changed their entire world view in a space of a couple of years, they decide to run to the hills, and finds it easier to be labelled a sheep rather than tackle matters they have either not researched or have no answers for.

And this from someone who worships a franchise which teaches that the rebels MUST defeat the evil Empire, for all our sakes.  To stop the “jackboot stamping on a face forever”, as Orwell put it.

There’s another “for instance”.  How about someone who finds it amusing that a conference would give time to the works of David Icke, or indeed investigate astrology beyond what “the stars tell you in your daily newspaper”.

You then ask the question: which David Icke books have you read, or which of his DVDs have you seen?  What do you think of the predictions he started making over 15 years ago of a New World Order, of talk of a cashless society, us all being implanted with microchips, or that there would be more maufactured terror to surrender our liberties. Or indeed note that astrology has its origins in sun worship from the days of ancient Babylon - a time where ALL religions can be traced back to (in other words, every religion is based on sun worship).

Needless to say, the running screaming to the hills was audible - that’s what I mean about challenging people on what they say.  If you’ve researched it and can tell me why I’ve got something wrong, let’s hear it.  If you don’t know what you are talking about, please, do go and do your research.

Be inquisitive, find out why there is a difference in opinion.  And don’t think that just because it’s not in the mainstream media, then someone else must have proved it’s wrong.  Saying “I’m a Sheep” is a cop-out - the fact you even say that means you realise that you just MIGHT have it wrong.

Back to the “What If?” scenario that you should be asking.  And here’s a good one to start with.  What if the our Governments are now totally controlled and in the debt of Corporations worldwide?  What if these Corporations control ALL the mass media outlets on the planet?

When you follow up on who owns all the mass media outlets, you’ll find that it is indeed huge corporations.

And so, your journey down the rabbit hole begins…

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