Last Look America: Giving Credence To The Heretic Fringe

• Posted on May 6, 2013
• by Clyde Lewis
• in Articles

LAST LOOK AMERICA:
GIVING CREDENCE TO THE HERETIC FRINGE

Last night as I was perusing the news links and stories, I did something that I haven’t done in a long time. I became self-referential. I was thinking to myself that we have reached a point where much of what is happening I have lived through before. Then I realized it wasn’t that I have lived them. I had written about them and in some wild delusion I predicted them in not so many words.
I realized that I chose an area of reporting than when I began in 1995 was safe because it could all be written off as hypothetical speculation. It was at the time well crafted conspiracy theory that was inspired by the likes of Robert Anton Wilson and conceptually paranormal in the spirit of Charles Fort.
Now that everything paranormal is becoming normal, there is a tendency by some people to deny the existence of the substance of the evolution of the “theory” and that while speculations are useful in trying to find fact, facts then rear their head and people in denial tend to hang on to the idea that they are still speculation.
They look at conspiracy theories and the beliefs surrounding them as comfortable as old sneakers; but there comes a time when the old sneakers need to be thrown out in favor of a new pair that can send you on your way to new journeys and new ideas that need to be presented.
I think it is time to admit that we are now in a moment where we need to not feel so comfortable about our theories or our speculations being taken at face value because there is now a mechanical effort to discredit and to create a highly threatening ‘thought police’ that will try to undermine the spirit of imagination, speculation, and theory for the sake of a well thought out and repetitive agenda that comes complete with a pejorative attack against anyone who questions it.
I am not saying that we should stop with our theories; I am just thinking that perhaps we should focus our passions on what makes a difference in the thought process.
We now see how specious arguments being presented on YouTube, or on Facebook in order to get hits and ‘likes’ and many people are unaware that disinformation lurks on the Internet. This disinformation is well organized and is presented as fact, when any conspiracy theorist that is a real theorist understands that this is all theory and is satisfied with it being theory until the facts prove otherwise.
I am sensing that the person who questions is now under attack, and the thought police will find a way to destroy the person who questions rather than encourage a healthy questioning process and the entertaining of curiosity for the sole purpose of understanding.
Barack Obama spoke to graduates of Ohio State University and told them to ignore anti-government arguments that “gum up the works” and instead aspire to be citizens who value both individual rights and community responsibilities.

“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems,” Mr. Obama told the crowd at the Ohio State commencement ceremony. “They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”               


When I heard the speech I realized that this says it all. The job of those who say they are awake just got more tough and that it is important to be vigilant in the face of the major thought war campaign. It was a reminder that when the popular ‘speculation” becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that someone has to assure everyone that what appears to be happening is not happening at all.

This is similar to the time when George W. Bush had to do damage control about the attacks of September 11th, 2001 stating that we as a people should not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories about the attacks. Bush called them “malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, shift the blame away from the guilty.”             


The truth seems to be so harmful to those in power, and the questions to get to the truth are as threatening as bullets or bombs. Those who are awake know that there seems to be an obvious bias that is present in information, and that bias is not pro-individual, it is pro government and if people are satisfied with a bias that is anti-citizen then they have to adjust to a press that most certainly not free, and a government that penalizes questioning in favor of just going along with their policies.
If the people cannot question and use the press, the Internet, or even talk radio to do it what are we?
You need to ask yourself if the so-called conspiracy theorizing is healthy for the body politic and if you support it then fight to keep it going.
Because I am sensing that controversy surrounding any speculation is being met with derision and it is going to be lost if the people do not speak up and start taking action to protect the right of expressing doubts about what you are being told by the well-paid naysayers.
In the United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press is free from government meddling. This is why I am seeking an unhealthy belief that whatever authority is saying in a newscast it has to be true. This is a lie about the very nature of the news institution in this country.
The media is now attacking people who are questioning the official story, the President is saying not to listen to those who are saying government policies are tyrannical and there are all kinds of produced media that reinforce government lies and cover ups while denying the very fact of the lies and cover-ups that are business as usual with government today.
We have reached a stalemate between belief and action in the United States.
The majority have allowed themselves to be fearful, self-absorbed cattle that move only when told to by those who claim to be the “cult of personality” that is there to preserve certain belief systems while at the same time employing destructive group dynamics.
The corporate media has decided to report certain stories that feed the fire of dissent and bigotry, while other stories, which confirm that we are in a time of deceit, are ignored in order to benefit corporate interests.
Anyone saying that the perfect government has lost some of its allure is now supposed to be discredited.
The members of the mass media once again think that they are losing their grip on being the primary source for the interpretation of what is truly reality.
They create a stereotype of those who are out there in the Internet world. They accuse bloggers of distorting the truth, and try to discourage anyone from questioning the consensus reality because it is not good for corporate or government interest.
They propose that anyone who searches for information online, or outside of the main branches of the corporate media, must be some sort of conspiracy theorist or kook.
Why is it that the mainstream media has decided that anything outside their precious hold on reality is “conspiracy theory?”
Why is it that there are many people who wish to believe them, when it is obvious that mainstream corporate media has a well entrenched selective mechanism for beaming whatever reality they choose to offer to the masses?
It used to be that the terms “investigative reporting” and “objectivity” were staples in a newsroom. “Objectivity” means that no belief systems will be inserted into the news and no value judgements will be made.
The old mantra of “the public’s right to know” was an important moral code in the newsroom.
Now the moral code for the newsman is “Facts be damned”; we mistrust every story that does not sit well with our precious belief systems. This, of course, is abbreviated to “no spin” or “fair and balanced” journalism.
Investigative journalism exists only in spirit now.
It is only there to compound the endemic paranoia that exists amongst the citizenry and to keep from exposing the criminal element in corporation or in government.
The fear I have that is growing incessantly is that I now live in a country that has become indifferent, and the only time that people will speak out is when someone speaks against the mainstream opinion that has been created using a destructive dynamic.
That is why is see the response to those who question as being malicious and treacherous. It can be heard and seen on every side of the issue. The idea of healthy discourse is being replaced by discussion on how to adjust to the mandate. If you say you refuse to adapt or refuse to believe you are again being fingered as a potential threat.
There is no talk of rebelling or challenging whatever mandate is being issued. There is no tolerating of questioning the so called official story that seems to have all of the same attributes of conspiracy theory, but is considered reality because of how it is presented and the medium in which it is presented.
The media now wants you to believe that nothing is wrong, nothing is out of place, everything is being done for your own good and that we will always prevail.
The President also wants you to believe the same nonsense.
The agendas, the reports, and the mandates from the throne are beginning to look like they are ex cathedra and this is becoming a frightening cult where the new scripture is not to be questioned. Since when is our President infallible and the media is not to be questioned?
They imply that you should forget all about history, because all that is important to them is the clever sound bite or the news broadcast that reinforces their brilliance and prophetic insight.
Take a last look America, the mind is about be centralized into one big information cult that shall not be questioned.
This information cult will extol the virtues of the anonymous source that feeds them with disinformation in order to shape public opinion in the direction that we are told should not be questioned or analyzed.
We will be told that it is un-American to question the men behind the curtain or the men and women who will sanitize information with double speak that safeguards the media buys and the ratings.
If there is a Decalogue to be produced for this Holy See called the media, it would be that “Thou shalt not contradict for fear of being called a heretic.”
We should not and cannot throw the well-groomed consensus into chaos this would be anathema.
We must now abide by the idea that the tyrants are in reality the heroes. President Obama, with a straight face, expects people to ignore those who stand out from the fantasy front he produces?
Of course, he wishes to demonize those who wish to expose the charade.
Someone has a guilty conscience.