Yesterday had a couple of conversations with my brother and dad about Obama and the state of things.  I’m the dementor of the family with my enduring belief – or at least interest – in UFOs, conspiracy theory, and the like.  They’re left-leaning Democrats, but not the kind of radical I can be in certain areas.

We talked about how Obama’s been a disappointment and how maybe he’s not unable to get things done because of the climate, but basically he’s getting what he wants.  So while he is to the left of Dick Cheney, there is still indefinite detention, the Patriot Act was quietly extended another year last week, the big Pharma deal, the lack of new financial regulation, on and on.  For some reason, those in highest power are right-leaning corporatists – Clinton was basically a Republican president and Obama’s of the same mold.  A “progressive” these days is just what a regular average Democrat used to be and the Democratic party has gone rightward.  For all the talk of a Democratic majority, it’s a ridiculous assertion, as there are only a handful of true Democrats and then a bunch of Republican-style corporatists.

Me, as the conspiracy theorizing sort, sees the possibility of a nefarious plot in all this – that there’s some purpose to all this pro-corporate anti-humanist legislation being passed.  I just cannot buy the assertion that it’s just for profit.  My brother mentioned that the Rubin crowd thought they were doing good: with the regulations stripped in the nineties via complicated derivatives equations, they thought they were giving the economy a good boost.  Makes enough sense, except regulations are put in there so people don’t abuse the system. So you strip the regulations and abuse is a given.  Were they really that short-sighted that they couldn’t see the obvious?  Or is this a nefarious plot to bring down the financial system to usher in something new?

When you break it down, it doesn’t matter.  Whether or not the Bilderberg/Trilateral Commission decided to destroy the economy and told Robert Rubin to do its bidding, or it was accomplished due to blind, abject stupidity, the result is the same.  The attraction of conspiracy theory is that it gives a purpose to society’s breakdown, which actually feels better than the realization that there is no grand purpose to civilization’s demise – it’s just that humans are fuck-ups and given the opportunity to fuck up (deregulation) they’ll take it.  Greed is just such a boring reason for the financial meltdown.  Really, people just wanted more money?  They’re just a bunch of addicts?  Maybe – and that makes me think even less about the human race than if there was some kind of machination behind all these recent events.

Except there still might be.  Even if all the recent events are totally arbitrary and not planned beforehand, it’s still leading to systemic collapse.  So there’s still a conspiracy to destroy the system – even if it’s unconscious.  In my novel I pontificate about humanity’s seeming death wish and how this plays into prophecy.  Although the battles in the Middle East, the decline of the financial system, the melting of the environment, et al. aren’t necessarily proof that the Book of Revelation  is real, it is very curious that world events seem to be mirroring end of the world prophecy regardless if it’s intentional.  Either way, we’re heading towards collapse – our current structure is unsustainable, and it’s eerie that we seem to be acting out prophecy, even if that prophecy wasn’t a literal prediction.

I take a more esoteric approach to the possibility that people are bringing these events to life – an unconscious conspiracy that is acting out a grand “design,” whether it’s bringing a Jungian archetype to life or something else, is as valid as a secret meeting at Bohemian Grove.  People might not know why they’re doing it, but they’re still doing it.  The shadowy group in control might just be the unconscious. In that sense, the New World Orderites might be taking things a shade too literally.

I take a similar leap with something like crop circles.  It is possible that even hoaxes are revealing some kind of coded message.  Couldn’t an advanced alien race – conceivably – act through hoaxers to create the same messages as they could do themselves?  We’re talking a race a million years more advanced than ourselves – why not?  What made those hoaxers decide on that particular design?  Even a hoax has possible meaning.  Whatever the case, they’re beautiful, and shouldn’t be laughed off just because they’re so cool:

There’s still a lot we do not understand about consciousness, and the potential of collective consciousness, so people may be creating an apocalyptic future without total intent.  Just as it’s eerie that our world seems to be acting out 2012 prophecy, it also seems to be acting out New World Order conspiracies (Patriot Act, globalization…).  Whether it’s a literal plot to end the world or a plot comprised of humans’ worst instincts may not actually matter.

Posted on March 4, 2010 at 11:54 am
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Tags: Barack Obama, Book of Revelation, Crop Circles, Economy, New World Order, Prophecy