Governmental conspiracy theories can shape the way we live. We all have them at some point. I’m not talking about “the FBI is putting signals in my ear” type paranoia, I’m talking about the typical every-day issues we have with Government.
Granted a lot of is warranted. Most of us our not buying the story told about how 9 guys from a third world Country gained access to American passports, flew here, to a class in flying Cessna’s and used that knowledge to systematically hijack and and crash 3 commercial airliners into three buildings, one only four stories tall and the others being the largest and most advanced construction projects in America’s history; then leveling them to the ground with the precision of a controlled blast.
The problem is when we start to combine fact and our own assumptions about it. The fact is there’s no way that could have happened. Anyone that has educated themselves on the subject would draw that conclusion. Everything else is just theory. Anything from Aliens to we did it to ourselves to up the Military budget has been thrown around.
Take the Healthcare debate for example. The Republicans pushed and pushed against ANY kind of reform. It is clear that they didn’t want a freshman Senator, Democrat, and black guy to be the one that does it. They wanted McCain to be the guy. O.k. so that’s obvious, but it’s how they fought it.
What they did to fight Healthcare is they found a weakness in people through their paranoia. A large amount of middle-America have this internal fear that Socialism (and/or Communism as the two terms are confused together in people’s heads) is the biggest fear we have; then rallied them up with this direct tie between Government run healthcare being the same as socialism. That ran out of control very quickly. In an attempt to stop the Government form having too much control, many people are inadvertently giving their power to private corporations that are somehow exempt from the Constitution that their values are so heavily based on.
Now, we need to question our Government. That much is true. We also need to stand out against injustice, but when we combine out own assumptions, elevated by paranoia, with the facts (or lack thereof), we begin to draw our own pictures into the environment.
On a quantum level, we know that our observations and even our feelings can alter the reality around us on a microscopic level. The “Observer Effect” is one that complicates nano-physics and other sub-atomic experiments. The concept of “Nuclear Fusion”, a possible new energy source that was being worked on in the late 80’s failed because they could never get it to be stable. Scientists blame the observer effect on that problem.
As people, we need to question the reality around us, and yet be very careful that we don’t start answering out own questions. If we do we start to mold the reality around us into what we don’t want to see. In this age of strange realities all around us, dead birds falling from the sky, climate change, people fighting each other about issues the have a positive effect on both sides of the argument, we should take time to examine our own viewpoints about every situation and decide if it’s based in actual fact or what we’ve added on to it.
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