Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
No, most of us don't like the way the world is heading.

But most of us reject the paranoid fantasist explanations that dominate threads on it.

No one denies there is a small element of planning and conspiracy in the way world events are unfolding, but my take is that the majority see naked self interest by the rich and privileged , unintended consequences, miscalculation, arrogance and stupidity (Truss and Kwartang) and plain, simple cock ups as the main reasons why things happen.

Not the Committee of 300 with their masonic symbols, led by Elizabeth Windsor, hidden in their Dallas bunker, directing their agents in governments, corporations and banks around the world - a mash up of the Illuminati and SPECTRE.

I can accept that a few powerful people have ambitions to push digital money and change the diet of Western Europe and North America (though not sure why), but not that the aim of this vast conspiracy is to kill by plague or poison 90% of the world population and leave the remaining black eyed 10% as brain dead slaves directed by a Bill Gates chip in their bloodstreams (introduced via Covid jabs).

The plot line would get a great score on Rotten Tomatoes - a cult film to match Plan 9 From Outer Space. But as a commentary on world events and the forces and ideas that drive them it is loopy.
It's 61 years since John F. Kennedy, the sitting President of the US, delivered his famous conspiracy speech. You can read it in full here: https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/...ation-19610427

Perhaps his most startling remarks are below. He was talking about the type of people who are so emboldened today that they openly boast of penetrating government cabinets with their puppets and delight in telling the world's population that they are now "hackable animals."

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations."