Conspiratorial Whispers

Conspiracy theories amount to fear-mongering.

Fear weakens resistance. Gullible masses believe that the theorists are saviours and willingly do their bidding.

Business and advertising join politics in the game.

Insurance is sold by instilling fear or stirring emotions about the well-being of kin.

Companies selling children’s products largely encash the insecurity of parents. 

Content factories do their bit by circulating videos that may or may not be genuine. They hire scriptwriters, shoot videos with actors, and distribute them as if they were live films of some incident. Hundreds of people mouth partisan views, present one-sided stories with edited highlights, and scream until people believe.

Politicians only tell the truth when they accuse each other of being liars.

At another level,  they eliminate sources of truth and capable opponents. ‘Cleaning up the system amounts to cleaning up opposition and superimposing their cronies to build systems that favour their interest.

If I blame someone more than all these manipulators, it is the people who consume partisan content and believe it. Some may say they watch the videos out of curiosity. But then they also circulate it, and Whatsapp University constructs a universe that does not exist.

Confirmation bias does exist somewhere in the game. We believe what we want to think, then we believe something more than that, and then we make others believe that. The malaise spreads in an increasingly sick society. The dreaded virus of 2020 was far less harmful than the venom circulating in society.

Well, am I circulating another conspiracy theory? Do I see and breathe the opponents lurking in every corner of my sanity?

My truth depends on being in the majority or minority.

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