Coherency Theory
Housekeeping: I'm putting up a shorter post tonight, just to keep myself in the habit of publication on this blog.
A lot of things that I believe diverge from the "Mainstream" narrative, for various reasons. Some are due to my religion, others to my weighing the testimony of one expert who showed their research above a consensus of intellectual midweights, with the rest mainly consisting of doubts stemming from unaccounted for pieces of evidence that just don't fit.
Nonetheless, the world I inhabit is still largely shaped by what is called the "Mainstream," though more and more I see people I know discounting what they hear to the point where I really don't thing Mainstream is the right word. Perhaps "The Official Story" works better; it's widely held by most people that the major American media organs act mainly as the mouthpieces of the US political parties. Whatever the details of the relationship, they are certainly not independent critics of the general structure of power in this country.
Their hold over the public mind has noticeably weakened in the past few years, but as yet they retain the one advantage of coherency. The stories they tell are all one story, sometimes told from two different perspectives, but generally within the same Overton Window. There are many facts that are unaccounted for in its telling, and outright lies that it has been caught in, but no alternative dethrones it.
The clever outsiders are left groping for leftover facts, piecing them together in one theory after another, but they are all dismissed as "conspiracy nuts." Not to deny there are a few filberts in the bunch, but I think the problem has less to do with inherent outlandishness than in the fact that it's hard to imagine a world in which they are all true. As some obviously aren't, and no editor is present to make a judgment call to priotize which, all are left on the cutting room floor.
Those on the narrative margin, placed there by the midwit consensus would do well to shift their efforts from theory generation into narrative consolidation. Can the theories fit together on one planet? I still think this world round, myself, and reptilians haven't presented much in the way of compelling evidence, but UFO's and the like have more substance than I expected to find. I don't know if I believe the stories that are told about the facts, but the facts are there, story or no. Something must eventually account for it.
If I go into detail later about what divergent beliefs I hold, I will do my best to present them two at a time, and perhaps as I write I will be able to either fit them together, or discard those that will not cohere. It's as much as I can do in these strange times.
A lot of things that I believe diverge from the "Mainstream" narrative, for various reasons. Some are due to my religion, others to my weighing the testimony of one expert who showed their research above a consensus of intellectual midweights, with the rest mainly consisting of doubts stemming from unaccounted for pieces of evidence that just don't fit.
Nonetheless, the world I inhabit is still largely shaped by what is called the "Mainstream," though more and more I see people I know discounting what they hear to the point where I really don't thing Mainstream is the right word. Perhaps "The Official Story" works better; it's widely held by most people that the major American media organs act mainly as the mouthpieces of the US political parties. Whatever the details of the relationship, they are certainly not independent critics of the general structure of power in this country.
Their hold over the public mind has noticeably weakened in the past few years, but as yet they retain the one advantage of coherency. The stories they tell are all one story, sometimes told from two different perspectives, but generally within the same Overton Window. There are many facts that are unaccounted for in its telling, and outright lies that it has been caught in, but no alternative dethrones it.
The clever outsiders are left groping for leftover facts, piecing them together in one theory after another, but they are all dismissed as "conspiracy nuts." Not to deny there are a few filberts in the bunch, but I think the problem has less to do with inherent outlandishness than in the fact that it's hard to imagine a world in which they are all true. As some obviously aren't, and no editor is present to make a judgment call to priotize which, all are left on the cutting room floor.
Those on the narrative margin, placed there by the midwit consensus would do well to shift their efforts from theory generation into narrative consolidation. Can the theories fit together on one planet? I still think this world round, myself, and reptilians haven't presented much in the way of compelling evidence, but UFO's and the like have more substance than I expected to find. I don't know if I believe the stories that are told about the facts, but the facts are there, story or no. Something must eventually account for it.
If I go into detail later about what divergent beliefs I hold, I will do my best to present them two at a time, and perhaps as I write I will be able to either fit them together, or discard those that will not cohere. It's as much as I can do in these strange times.
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