{"id":343887,"date":"2018-01-15T06:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/conspiracy-low-and-conspiracy-high\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T06:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T05:44:34","slug":"conspiracy-low-and-conspiracy-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/conspiracy-low-and-conspiracy-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Low and Conspiracy High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8748336869ydpea8d1274MsoNormal\"><b>We need a \u201cCritique of Pure Conspiracy\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8748336869ydpea8d1274MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"><b><i>For all things which are reproved are made manifest by light,<\/i><\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8748336869ydpea8d1274MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"><b><i>for whatever does make manifest is light (Ephesians 5:13)<\/i><\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8748336869ydpea8d1274MsoNormal\">What is generally called \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d has undergone a revival of considerable proportions.\u00a0 Today everyone prides themselves on knowing that \u201call is not what it seems on the surface.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 This is obvious from the declining trust in public institutions, science, politics, and education.\u00a0 Of course, there never was a time when all was just what it seemed on the surface.\u00a0 Still, there was indeed a time, and not so long ago, when propaganda systems enjoyed something closer to ubiquity due to the monopoly of broadcast technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8748336869ydpea8d1274MsoNormal\">Now that everybody on your street (or at least your social media network) is a conspiracy theorist, one might reasonably ask why this hasn\u2019t automatically translated into a free society.\u00a0 Part of the answer to this question is that there is a whole lot more to establishing, or regaining, a free society than just the dissemination of information.\u00a0 If there are elites who secretly control the world, they need to be fought, not just talked about.\u00a0 In fact, there are indications that they enjoy being talked about, and that it fortifies and celebrates their power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8748336869ydpea8d1274MsoNormal\">However, while mere information is not sufficient, it is certainly necessary in both great quantity and reasonable quality.\u00a0 Today we certainly have the quantity, but much of what gets stuffed into that portmanteau phrase \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d is just plain bad.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps that\u2019s just the way the conspiratorial cookie crumbles, as the mocking skeptics claim.\u00a0 Or perhaps there is some sort of improvement in method which would at once validate and improve the quality of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/mark-sunwall\/conspiracy-low-and-conspiracy-high\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a \u201cCritique of Pure Conspiracy\u201d For all things which are reproved are made manifest by light, for whatever does make manifest is light (Ephesians 5:13) What is generally called \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d has undergone a revival of considerable proportions.\u00a0 Today everyone prides themselves on knowing that \u201call is not what it seems on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}