“Power is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac” (Dr. Henry Kissinger) We are told that knowledge is power. If we seek power, it follows that we must seek knowledge. We gain knowledge through individual experience. Everyone wants personal value. The question is to what should we subscribe to gain personal power? Should we subscribe to material wealth…
“Power is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac” (Dr. Henry Kissinger) We are told that knowledge is power. If we seek power, it follows that we must seek knowledge. We gain knowledge through individual experience. Everyone wants personal value. The question is to what should we subscribe to gain personal power? Should we subscribe to material wealth? Should we subscribe to morality? Should we subscribe to religious associations? Should we subscribe to spiritual maturity? All of these offer a wide spectrum of choice and a broad difference in degrees of human worth. If Knowledge is power and if one measures one's personal value by the degree of power to which one is able to assemble, then perhaps the source of that Knowledge becomes a lesser factor than what power that knowledge brings. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that stupid people don't have to prove them. If someone pops up and tells them that they can assemble power if they accept this knowledge, then their measure of personal value hinges upon this gathering of knowledge, regardless of the source or its affects. For those who have been denied material accumulation in a society that measures personal value by such associations, then this alternative sense of personal value becomes very attractive. By identifying those who have been the source of denying them personal value, regardless of the truth or falsehood of the blame, then you set the stage for war....especially when that power is an aphrodisiac. Spiritual maturity is also an aphrodisiac, but mankind has chosen a different path to this measure of personal power.
The problem with conspiracies theories Frank Stronghorse, is that all to often, they turn out to be not theories but facts. For instance persecution of the Jews in Germany was dismissed before the war as unfounded conspiracy theory.
John Harrington — 'Treason doth never prosper: what 's the reason?Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.'
QAnon and the right don't have conspiracy theories trademarked.
Idiocy and fanaticism is found in left and right.
And so it goes with all attributes, qualities and failings of humanity.
“Power is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac” (Dr. Henry Kissinger) We are told that knowledge is power. If we seek power, it follows that we must seek knowledge. We gain knowledge through individual experience. Everyone wants personal value. The question is to what should we subscribe to gain personal power? Should we subscribe to material wealth? Should we subscribe to morality? Should we subscribe to religious associations? Should we subscribe to spiritual maturity? All of these offer a wide spectrum of choice and a broad difference in degrees of human worth. If Knowledge is power and if one measures one's personal value by the degree of power to which one is able to assemble, then perhaps the source of that Knowledge becomes a lesser factor than what power that knowledge brings. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that stupid people don't have to prove them. If someone pops up and tells them that they can assemble power if they accept this knowledge, then their measure of personal value hinges upon this gathering of knowledge, regardless of the source or its affects. For those who have been denied material accumulation in a society that measures personal value by such associations, then this alternative sense of personal value becomes very attractive. By identifying those who have been the source of denying them personal value, regardless of the truth or falsehood of the blame, then you set the stage for war....especially when that power is an aphrodisiac. Spiritual maturity is also an aphrodisiac, but mankind has chosen a different path to this measure of personal power.
The problem with conspiracies theories Frank Stronghorse, is that all to often, they turn out to be not theories but facts. For instance persecution of the Jews in Germany was dismissed before the war as unfounded conspiracy theory.
John Harrington — 'Treason doth never prosper: what 's the reason?Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.'
QAnon and the right don't have conspiracy theories trademarked.
Idiocy and fanaticism is found in left and right.
And so it goes with all attributes, qualities and failings of humanity.