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It's surprising how many people don't know about this stuff. I've brought it up to lots of people, and they get very uneasy when I show them that it's factual.



The intelligence agencies are more or less eldritch horrors whose interests are somewhat aligned with America's.

If you're bringing up this kind of information to inform, you're only making the world a darker place. If you're bringing up the information to inspire change, you're proposing a fight against something so vast that its extents defy its own comprehension, and to-which morality is alien.

If Cthulhu is slumbering, do you want someone to risk waking him?


> you're only making the world a darker place

I disagree. I think informing people is the only way to

> inspire change

> you're proposing a fight against something so vast that its extents defy its own comprehension, and to-which morality is alien.

Yes.

> If Cthulhu is slumbering

`If`... I believe we are actively harmed by these organizations.

TBH, I can tell a part of me has a `Can't beat 'em, then join 'em` mentality, but I believe where these organizations are headed is bad for even the future of their members.

Knowing these bodies exist, and believing as I do that the aim of those at the top of these organizations is to enslave most everyone, I can't understand not fighting against them.

That said, maybe you don't believe control and slavery is the ultimate goal of those that run these organizations? Or maybe you don't think they'll achieve it?


> The intelligence agencies are more or less eldritch horrors whose interests are somewhat aligned with America's.

So, no different than any other part of government.


Makes me think of this video where a man asks people on the street “do you know what day it is” on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, people get guarded very quickly, they know what day it is, they just don’t want to talk about it

Could be similar with CIA, a lot of people know they were distributing cocaine, but people are sheepish to speak freely.

https://vimeo.com/44078865


I once had a conversation with a coworker once that went like this:

Me: There’s a theory that the US government remote-controlled the 9/11 airliners and crashed them into the WTC to fire up arms sales that have been slow since the Cold War ended

Colleague: Yeah, so?

Me: that conspiracy theory is from March, 2001

Colleague: (uncomfortable silence)

[0] https://youtu.be/FcZ6HXIOmYE


Wait so someone predicted the date of 9/11 on March, 2001? Or is that something you've inserted that isn't reflective of the original prediction?


He described the exact plot of the pilot episode of The Lone Gunman in that YouTube link., The Lone Gunman was like the Mr. Robot of March, 2001.


The popular cultural notion that airliners could be used to crash into the World Trade Center had been floating around for decades prior to The Lone Gunman. I had first come across it in 1989 or so, but I suspect it goes all the way back to 1973. It wasn't a unique or new idea.


Assassinating the president is as old as Rome, but if there was a TV show from March, 1963 where the military-industrial complex, mad at the president for not escalating Vietnam, decided to kill him by hiding a gunman in a building along his route in Dallas, We’d still be talking about it now.


I wonder what's the root cause for this truly prevalent behaviour. I find it off putting when a person is feeling uneasy and tried to evade the topic. These are serious matters


Cognitive dissonance. If people don't want to believe something is true, they will subconsciously reject it.




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