We have all heard a conspiracy theory at least once in our lives. Some of us have heard more than one and others believe in them like religious nuts.
Where should I start? Fake moon landing, JFK assassination, 9/11, aliens working with the USA government and so on. Those are the ones I believe are very plausible. There goes some more: New World Order, Illuminati, Ancient Knowledge kept secret from the average person, Cancer is caused by the government.
So many of them which can only mean that at least some of them have to be real. Which ones should we believe in? I strongly disagree they are all fake, some of them are over-exaggerated, however mostly true. I, for one, believe that there is a reason for conspiracy theories. My personal reason to believe in them is that those conspiracy theories help me cope with the world. They are like my romantic fairy tail where the prince shows up in a white horse and tells me I do not suffer from schizophrenia.
I am not a negative person, I would like to consider myself a very positive and emotional person, however all I see around me and around the world (because hey, I can look further than my nose) is misery, sadness, despair, hunger and more misery. Everyday...all the time. And no, this is not due to my depression, my views on life and the world are solely based on observation and a bit of emotional intelligence, which by the way helps you not to be an ignorant fuck. I see wars, unhappiness, poverty and unfairness. And then I ask myself, am I a human being who has the capability of creating a computer, the internet, airplanes and spaceships (well not particularly ME, but others have done it!) but struggles to abolish poverty and rape around the world? I cannot go on and enjoy a night out as much as my friends, because there are so many things that play tricks on my mind. I keep thinking about that big stake I just ate and in a matter of seconds my mind will travel to the slums of India where children drink muddy water and that will be their dinner. And in that moment I will ask myself, why am I here?; how did I deserve this?; pure luck if you ask me. I don't want to be here, I've had enough steaks, I want to do something with my life, I want to make sure that we change this unfairness. Fuck you luck! Oh and there goes 'You should't let this ruin your nights out or your life, there is nothing you can do about the poor people in India? You can't actually help the poor people in Brazil or even the homeless people in your hometown!... so just go on, close your eyes, enjoy your steak and have a beer.'.
People have often called me selfish, but a matter of fact is that they are the selfish ones. These people will come back home from work, sit on their couch, have their dinner while watching the news. News showing soft-version of the misery that is happening around the world. I assure you, those people will feel sad, until the news are over. Then they will just move on like nothing has happened. Come on, there must be a reason we are such heartless dicks! Maybe its the 1% Elite that are controlling our minds through our TVs?? What, you've not heard this conspiracy theory?
Important fact is that there is nothing I can do to help anyone, this is the world I live in. I cannot afford to go and help people in another country, I cannot afford to go and support Occupy Wall Street. I live in a society where I need to climb a staircase towards money and security BEFORE I am free (basically have some money) to go and help people. But do you know what happens once you start climbing the society staircase...you lose your eyes, your mind and your soul... so by the time I can afford some freedom I would have stopped caring.
So how do conspiracy theories help me cope with the world? In a world where I want to do nothing but help people, just like Holden Caulfield, I am not allowed to. And to me it doesn't make sense. In a world where people are dying from poverty and starvation, I go to my pointless job in a pub to start my shift and poor pints for people and probably end up cleaning their sick of the floor, and this is my everyday life. How does that make sense? How does it make sense that I work in a job that does nothing for no one, just so I can make money, just so I can buy shit I don't need?
Conspiracy theories help me make sense of it. It's not us as a society that is so fucked up that we do pointless shit everyday for the rest of our lives...it is them. Whoever they are wherever they are. They have enslaved us and they play monopoly with the world. It can't be us, the poor average Joe we are good people, we care...for a short while. It is THEM, the bad guys who control us all. It is them who have enslaved us so badly that we have turned into mindless consumers. Them who will do everything for money. Not us. It has to be them, not us.... right?
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