Two things to please consider: 1. I will not use any references or citations, and hopefully include the minimal amount of hyperlinks possible. This is not to say that these thoughts have not been turned on the lathes of others, and I will gladly provide any pertinent material. 2. This is an exercise of oscillating scope, from micro-to-macro and back again. A cycling dilation and constriction of aperture. The hyperbole and metaphor might not conform to the desired sense of consistent scale, but then I am not making claims to the same reality. To be clear about it: if anything, I feel that poetics can only help save us.
Conspiracy is a strange word indeed. Rooted in the romantic for 'together' 'breathe', it figuratively means conformed opinion. In the now-pejorative 'conspiracy theory' then, it must be the word 'theory' that does all the damage. Presumably it means 'theories about conspiracy', because the theorists, like academics, certainly do not 'breathe together'. Of anyone, I'd assume academics would know the pressures of institutionalization. A disgusting concept, in all its connotations. If everybody believed in the same religion, it would no longer be called religion.
So, here's my theory on the living, breathing hegemony:
Historically, hegemony's priority has been to govern reality. Truth does not matter, but representation of truth does. I would even proffer that as one of hegemony's defining characteristics. In the government of this reality, there is only authority, and authority is ascertained through only a few items: power/control, superstition, and identity. This acts to confer responsibility (or repercussion of consequence) downward, to the base of the power pyramid (for sake of analogy).
We're literally getting played. Mass media is owned, almost in entirety, by a very select few people. And nearly everything the media says is spurious. It is there to support a globalist narrative, which is quickly reducible to bogus economics. For example, the US has been able to get into such a $15 trillion pickle (unfunded liabilities make it more like $60-$115 trillion!!) because of economic colonialism: the dollar has been the de facto currency of global trade. This means that it is the action, or use, of the USD that underwrites and 'securitizes' itself.
The gross effects are that classical notions of money get turned upside down: ludicrous amounts of debt becomes a "GOOD" thing, because other nations elsewhere have too much wrapped up in the US economy to sell much of their debt holdings at any one time. Their economies then effectively work to prop up the States', because the USD flows through them.
This postulate would explain nearly all of the US foreign policy: invade Iraq, to assure their oil market uses US funds (they'd just swapped to the Euro when US forces started doing horrible things to them again); the War on Drugs, they want you snorting coke with rolled dollar bills, not pesos or pounds etc. The more market capillaries the dollar gets into, the more the US has the need to push further. The War on Terror? Well, that's even crazier...
'Terrorism' is a lie, in fact, it is only an institutional creation of assessment styled to discredit anyone seeking self-determination. Basically, this independence resists economic colonialism. Meanwhile, extrajudicial killings, prison rape, torture, attack helicopters strafing weddings, tampered water supplies, pollution, preferential drug control, IMMENSE economic fraud, drone attacks, agricultural bullshit, unchecked police actions... these are all sanctioned. Sure, there will be many expressions of self-determination, and some are violent, but not nearly as close as the systemic forms that governments espouse. Violent action is the mistake of using the same language as those who authorize reality.
And it's fictional, pure fabrication: basically, people are furious for every reason that they've been wronged, but there's no unity to it. The causes are manifold and decentralized. Consolidation of the issue, ie. calling it terrorism, is media wizardry. And what it allows for is the creation of a bad reality (bad as in, not close to a true representation of the moment): 'these monsters are IRRATIONAL, they hate you, there's no pattern, it could be your NEIGHBOUR, now take your Ritalin', meanwhile, the objective is to win all the gun-smuggling contracts, get the drugs (a very stable commodity - the black market adores USD), push the dollars through this sovereign country's markets forcibly. Boom - hooked up, all while transferring public tax money to private hands. So who gains here? Who NEEDS terrorism?
I've made a few leaps there, must mean I'm overheating... I'll resume this later. I truly need to exhaust myself of the subject.
