'Insane' Conspiracy Theorists Who Turned Out to Be Right by 6ixStringJack

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'Insane' Conspiracy Theorists Who Turned Out to Be Right

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UPDATED: Monday, May 25, 2026 05:16
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Monday, May 25, 2026 3:59 AM

Yeah...

Nobody ever said it was easy being a visionary.

And we all know that telling the truth ain't easy, or I suppose we'd all have a lot less to bitch about in life.

One of the few perks of being a nobody who drives around a 25 year old car, I guess. I know I'm on lists for sure just like everybody here except for possibly Brenda, but it don't really bother me none. They know my influence is so small it may as well be nil and I figure at this point they've got to know that I'm not actually a physical danger to anybody. I'm just one of thousands or perhaps even millions of people now that they've put flags on that will end up dying one day of natural causes, having not caused any actual problems for those in power.

If the system is working, than yeah... If I were the one paying for it I'd want to see a million potential hits leading us to the few people who were actually problems and removing them from the equation before they become a real threat.

And some of the stuff I know... Those secrets are going to die with me.

Not because I'm scared. Not because I'm lazy. Not because I don't care...

Because...

I know there's a word for it, although I'm struggling to find it now.... But what do you call information that is better left buried because just knowing it could lead people to madness? Where simply learning about the fact that the subject exists could lead many, many people to madness.

Do you read Sutter Cane?

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Monday, May 25, 2026 5:16 AM

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There it is... The word...

Are there things no one should know? Is more information always good? Or will some knowledge almost certainly lead to the end of civilization?

At least it's the soulless, HR lawyerspeak word for it.

I think it probably deserves and likely even has a more fitting spiritual name that currently escapes my grasp.

An obvious word to go to would be Blasphemous, but I believe that word has been used so many times in history to simply manipulate thought and/or keep people from ever thinking outside of their box. Anything so strongly attached with The Church would not be a fitting word for it.

It's not the 1990's anymore and it's not shocking to say that we all know that the government hides an unbelievable amount of information from us. We've witnessed the transition of ideas out of hte box being labled as conspiracy theories to only be proven as the truth. Sometimes it only takes 6 months. Sometimes decades. But the truth eventually does usually find its way out. But none of the people who lived that truth were celebrated for their eventual vindication. Most of them end up dead a long time before that happens. And those who are still alive usually aren't in the best of shape and aren't really in the mood to celebrate.

That's what all the warnings about staring into the void, and how it stares right back into you were all about...

It's very doubtful any of their lives would have turned out any better for them had they lived with what they knew and kept it all to themselves. Those fake autopsy reports claiming self-infliction with two bullet holes in the head would likely have been replaced with real ones and only a single hole anyhow.

It's times like these when I look back on reading 1984 and then following that up immediately by reading Brave New World, both for the first time.

I found myself almost enjoying my time in Brave New World even as I was horrified about how the government had so long ago erased the family unit and completely replaced it with what essentially is factories worldwide incubating the youth. At least for those who weren't outcasts, this is a world with no family. No tribes. No community. No allegiance to anybody but the Government. Back when I read them, I thought to myself the only reason I found that world even moderately appealing was because I had literally just finished reading about Winston's horrible end in that dreadful world...

But at the same time... Brave New World more or less works.

The entire time you're reading it, at least the first half of the book, you're in the mind of Bernard. Bernard is a character that would not exist in his world, but if Bernard didn't exist, than there wouldn't be a book to write. So Bernard had to exist.

They had it all figured out, and everything had been implemented somehow for so long that the children cringed when even hearing about the concept of Motherhood and Fatherhood and how barbaric people used to be before they were all enlightened.

Through statistics and algorithms, you've long known exactly how many people you'd need for what level of labor. Your long-term history with the trends has been nearly flawless, and people have trust in that system. It is highly adaptable, and can be fed new information and change its prediction models based off of the new data very quickly.

So you grow them. The people, that is. And you determine how many people will be smart, and how many will be born too stupid to know how shitty their lives are going to be, simply because they drew the short straw on the day they were artificially created. It's a mercy when you think about it, really. In a world with no family units, no procreation, mandated short flings in lieu of any long and meaningful relationships, no real ties to anybody else as well as having the ability to give this mercy to those who are destined for a life of hard manual labor and zero clout... Wouldn't it be wrong NOT to make them too stupid to ponder the meaning of their shitty lives if you could?

And at the end of the day, with all the manipulation that you've done, once outside of the laboratory setting there will always be unexpected occurrences and unpredictable outcomes simply because we're all still human. So how do you get people to voluntarily do something everyday to ensure maximum compliance and minimal agency? Offer them a non-addictive drug, with zero side effects or long-term negative physical problems, that you build very little tolerance to over time and has never caused a single death when used as directed. An extremely tempered down form of heroin, which doesn't take you so far down the rabbit hole you'll never make it out again, but offers you just enough guilt-free feel-goods throughout your day to take off the edge. Any little day to day worries are wiped completely from your mind, let alone the ability to sit down and really think about the big picture stuff.

But as long as it's all good, why bitch right? If the people in charge are all running things well and nobody seems disappointed with themselves or their lives, does it really matter that somebody is up there pulling the strings?

I would think that at least the atheists among us would say no. Isn't that one of their main complaints about religion? If there were an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful god, than why is there so much suffering in the world?

It's not a bad question. And in a time when we're going to be crowning somebody the world's first Trillionaire soon, I think we're living in a world where we're making our own new gods and maybe questions like that should be asked more often.

I used to fear Brave New World's world, back when I only had half as many years behind me. It's because it held up a mirror to my own face and made me realize that as much as I wanted to pretend that I was independent, I didn't know shit and I wouldn't have stood a chance out in the wilderness on my own. I didn't even know how to do my own laundry until I moved out, are you kidding me. And then to wake up and be reminded of that fact when I get a lifetime prescription for insulin at 45 years old and realize that ever doing so now is in the realm of pure fantasy for me. But eventually reconciling with this new data the only way I could, by admitting to myself that I never was going to live off the grid, and I likely would have been a miserable failure at it and gone right back to Society with my tail between my legs had I ever tried it.

These days, Brave New World doesn't bother me so much...

Because I've watched for the last 25 years what has happened to people when all the secrets stopped being secrets and everybody is able to say whatever they want to say about anything, largely behind what is for most purposes an anonymous handle when they say it.

We're all miserable.

1984 is absolutely horrifying. I'll die on the hill saying that it is far more terrifying than anything put out by any non-fiction horror in the last 50 years.

But Brave New World?

Short of some miracle advancement in science that allows us to leave this rock en masse and chart out new territory of our own, I don't think I see a better possible future for mankind than what was written in that book.

And I say that because John the Savage existed.

If you didn't want to be part of the machine, and you had it in you to do what you would need to do to live outside of the easy living of Society, that option was fully available to you and nobody seemed interested in trying to take that away from you.

You always had the choice there. Keep your free will and live a very difficult life, or take your Soma and break your rocks and just sleepwalk your way through life without any real care in the world.

I need to re-read Neil Postman's words about both of these books, since he's the one who originally turned me on to them. I'm curious if we're in agreement at all that Brave New World is actually a pretty hopeful version of the future, and not the living nightmare world presented to us in 1984.

I think back before the internet people were hungry for The Truth. They got a sense that up until they were able to go online that for decades the information had been a one-way affair with TV and radio. Well over a century or two if you consider just the news in print before that.

But does anybody ever ask if maybe that wasn't such a bad thing?

I think we all know way too much now. And what's worse is we all just know a very, very little bit about a large amount of things. Everybody out there thinking that we're all smarter than we really are, grabbing up all the little tidbits that make sense to us and wearing them like badges until we're covered in 'em. And then like little info-golems in our soundbyte armor, we go online and do battle with each other... over and over and over and over again.

And to what end? I've never heard anyone articulate a meaningful reason for any of this behavior. That's not to say that it hasn't been scientifically explained, and that the rewiring of the brain's pleasure centers over time by changing the way that humans get their regular dose of their own body's created feel good chemicals hasn't been researched down to the bone at this point and is expertly utilized against all of us.

Let's just say that a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people who ever bitches about things online actually has the stones to do anything about anything in real life. They can't even manage to fix their own problems and they get dopamine hits by trying to ruin other people's days. Something that wasn't available to them in real life before the internet came out that didn't risk getting punched in the nose... or worse.

And who can blame anybody for not feeling guilty to talking to other humans like they do online. There's nothing at all human about the process to begin with.

It's all too much. But it's all a horribly failed experiment that we're all just stuck with for the rest of our lives now.

Human beings are not compatible with the Internet.

It won't be AI that destroys us, because the Internet already did.

Anyways....

Infohazards are very real.

Although I'm sure we can come up with a much better name for them than that if that word doesn't already exist.

There is just some stuff that you should not know. And that's perfectly okay.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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