There’s the known

And there’s the unknown

 

The known you know to know, typically

Sometimes you know without even knowing that you know, you “just know it”

The unknown you partly know to not know, and partly don’t even know that you don’t know

 

Now, if you know something, truly know — there’s not much you can do about it. If you’re convinced that it’s true — unless someone convinces you otherwise — you will call a spade a spade

Those that will disagree with you will call you arrogant or delusional

Those that agree with you will call you genius sometimes

But there’s nothing you can do. If you know it, believe it — you know it

 

However our attitude to the UNKNOWN is where the schism between the CONSPIRATORIAL, and the SANE, begins

 

See,

The SANE just admit that they don’t know

Sometimes they will be wrong, sometimes they won’t realise how little they know… all that is normal

 

The CONSPIRATORIAL never DON’T know

When the CONSPIRATORIAL doesn’t know — he believes there is a SECRET

And that only he knows that secret

THAT’S WHY what he “knows” is at odds with what others claim

Because only he knows the secret

 

Do you see it?

The CONSPIRATORIAL can’t just see that the world is complex and that power is decentralised, that business has some power and politics have some power and myriad other interest groups

The CONSPIRATORIAL can’t accept that they can’t explain how the world works precisely, how the power works

He can’t accept that he doesn’t know

So he makes his own explanation

=Secret ruling elite, of course

 

Do you see it?

The CONSPIRATORIAL can’t just admit that SCIENCE is hard, and he’s too fucking stupid to understand it

Whether it’s admitting that his eyes are fooling him, that the world is PERHAPS ACTUALLY NOT FLAT

Whether it’s understanding even 1% of rocket science, before deciding that we couldn’t possibly have landed on the moon

Whether it’s admitting that PERHAPS WE JUST DON’T KNOW if there are EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS, no, he has to know

He knows they exist, and the SECRET is that GOVERNMENT concealed it

…I’m bored already

 

The SANE person has SANE attitude to UNKNOWN

The CONSPIRATORIAL can’t accept the unknown

Can’t accept NOT knowing

He has to have an opinion

 

The same instinct speaks through him as the one which caused them to BURN THE WITCH

They just couldn’t accept ANY DOUBT about the life after death

And they had to consolidate their FAITH, i.e. consolidate their DELUSION and MAKE IT REAL — by torturing the poor lass and then burning her

 

Ultimately,

this has nothing to do with whether conspiracies are right or wrong,

or whether religion is useful or useless, FAITH is useful or useless,

It has EVERYTHING to do with your attitude to the unknown

 

Does this affliction affect more the stupid or the ingenious? Genius is madness, after all

Does this affliction affect more the down-to-earth and common or creative and idealistic?

The best indicator is indeed the level of ABSTRACTION and DETACHMENT from reality on which someone operates:

-Ivory tower

-Power

-Fame

-Wealth

-Privilege

-Adulation

-etc

However a common hard-working no-nonsense peasant, while duly grounded in his reality and the reality of his real job — is nevertheless utterly disconnected from the realities of the many subjects on which he is expected to have an opinion,

politics, economy, culture, science, etc.

What will keep our working-class hero from being a delusional conspiratorial nutjob? Not the idiots around him, that’s for sure

 

Thus,

The only protection is to focus 90% of one’s attention on one’s REAL LIFE, and REAL TANGIBLE IMPROVEMENTS within it

TANGIBLE

It has to be something you yourself brought forth, and not great fortune, and not the government,

Something you yourself paid for, with not (merely) money but your time and effort and commitment,

THAT is real

And THAT is what you DO KNOW

 

And as for the rest of this complex reality, full of complex theories and complex ideas and ideologies..

-Learn more

-TEST MORE, test where you can. Make predictions, and best test yourself, get skin in the game

-And foremost STFU. Admit that you just don’t know

-And let go. You don’t NEED to have an opinion. You likely shouldn’t have an opinion, you don’t deserve it

 

As for the CONSPIRATORIAL whackjobs,

Obviously we can’t take their voice, we need freedom of speech for the good ideas to compete and prevail,

We can however punish madness

We can punish ignorance

We can punish dishonesty

And we can develop greater appreciation for SANITY

We have normalised extreme opinions

We have normalised conspiratorial obvious nonsense

Therefore to those of you who are CONSPIRATORIAL: please realise that you are a bunch of ignorant epistemically arrogant cunts.

But to those of you who are NOT CONSPIRATORIAL: it has to come from us to CARE

Obviously we can’t regulate it, have politicians regulate it, I already said it

It has to come from within, from the collective consciousness

Therefore us NON-CONSPIRATORIAL man — must ourselves punish the conspiratorial

Stop viewing it as a cute quiddity

You wouldn’t hire a fucking flat-earther to build a rocket, would you

Then why do you even talk to him?

You wouldn’t talk to a fucking madman. You’d be careful he doesn’t have a gun or some other brilliant idea

We have a tolerant system so that we OURSELVES don’t have to be tolerant, so that we ourselves can DISCRIMINATE what’s best for ourselves

And this way slowly, in a decentralised manner, arrive at the higher accuracy beliefs

And ERADICATE this fucking CONSPIRATORIAL MADNESS