- Aliens
didn’t build Stonehenge;
- Man
did land on the Moon;
- Beatle Sir Paul is alive and kicking.
- Boy, do we love a good conspiracy.
- Start with a fact or two;
- stir in some conjecture;
- a little confusion;
- a distorted quotation;
- add a doctored photo.
- And most recently add the internet……
- a subtle twitter….
- …as gentle as the proverbial butterfly wing’s beat the other side of the globe…
- and there you have it:
- a gestating Conspiracy Theory.
- Of
course they are denying it: that’s because it is true!
- They would say that.
- Water
fluoridation. Oh yes!
- And
don’t even start on global warming….
- Nor
JFK.
- 9/11.
- Clinton
Body Count.
- The
Philadelphia Experiment.
- Even
the creation of good ol’ Wikipedia.
- And what the FDA gets up to….
- We love a good conspiracy:
- a simple fact made into a narrative, a story, a drama to which we can all contribute, tell and re-tell.
- Why do we do it?
- We are dramatists at heart!
- We love story..
- Once we couldn’t write anything down as there was no….paper. Incredible, but true!
- So memory…
- ..plus story-telling ability…
- was all there was.
- The story of the tribe, the story of the culture.
- We miss those times and their great rambling sagas…
- of men and women… of monsters and sea creatures…
- and gold and demons…
- and heroes and heroines.
- It’s what make us one of the most loveable creatures in the universe. Most of the time.
- There, in a youngish solar system in an ancient empty universe. On a craggy blue and green planet spinning around a Sun at a perfect distance to support Life. Thunder and lightening. All alone. Grappling with language and the pains of the subjunctive, we were sitting around camp fires….
- …telling stories…
- …creating urban myths before anyone knew what urban meant.
- And when there were things we didn’t understand or people we didn’t like we searched and searched for meaning and understanding when it wasn’t always there…
- …especially when it might create blame and propagate it…
- so we wrapped it around a story for longevity.
- The conspiracy was born.
- Such
as the North American Union and its currency the amero
- And
of course Shakespeare isn’t 'the man' after all...
- And where is Shergar?
- But most of the time.
- Perhaps, disappointingly.
- The explanation is simple.
- Damn simple.
- Too damn simple for our liking a lot of the time.
- The obvious.
- The simple.
- OCCAM PUT IT PRETTY WELL.
- Occam's razor: the concept that when you have two opposing/diverging/different ideas that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the most likely to be correct.
- And you know the biggest?
- Globe spinning?
- Mind numbing?
- Ever quoted, lip-smacking conspiracy on the planet?
- "Success is a function of school and college".
- But it isn’t.
- It simply isn’t.
- Success is a function of oomph.
- Sure, college can help.
- (although if handled badly it sure can hinder)
- but: whatever you want….
- ..whatever success is for you
- The salary increase.
- The girl.
- The house on the hill.
- The car.
- Don’t believe the hearsay.
- Work on your mindset.
- Releasing the A W E S O M E potential of your brain.
- The only real conspiracy is how well we have been conditioned.
- School, college, mba….
- It isn’t intrinsically bad. It really, really isn’t. But. IT AIN”T ENOUGH for what you
- That’s you.
- Really want.
- Stop the drip feed into your brain.
- That success is dependent on ‘tick-list’ education.
- It actually depends on oomph, drive, attitude, mindset. Call it what you will.
- That’s get up and go.
- Get up and ask. Yell, if necessary.
- Get up and make the call.
- Get up and send the 100th CV.
- Conspiracy over.
- No aliens
- (Although do read the Area 51 Autopsy report. It’s mighty cool).
- No hidden FBI nor CIA transmitters in the back of your TV (obviously worth checking every so often, though)
- No doctored Starbucks coffee. It’s just simply strong.
- Just you and what you want.
- 1 nanometre (that’s very, very small) apart.
- There for the grabbing.
- Get the basics: school, college, MBA. Etc
- But it ain’t enough!
- That’s where you come in.
- You conspiracy buster, you. Rock on.