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From Social
Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS), a journal from
the independent publisher Sage Publications, comes an article that
has predictably seen wide distribution on the Internet. It implies
that those who believe in globalist conspiracy theories are illogical
– even downright nutty.

The article
is entitled “Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy
Theories” and the thesis of the article is that people who
believe in conspiracy theories eventually become so immersed in
them and so mesmerized that they do not realize they are holding
contradictory beliefs.

“Conspiracy
theories can form a monological belief system: A self-sustaining
worldview comprised of a network of mutually supportive beliefs.
The present research shows that even mutually incompatible conspiracy
theories are positively correlated in endorsement.” (SPPS Abstract)

“Conspiratorialists”
become so distrustful of “government” and “authority”
that they will impute any and every kind of malevolence to them.

Thus it is
that people can claim, on the one hand, that Osama bin Laden is
“dead” and died years ago, while simultaneously claiming
that bin Laden remains alive and that US and Pakistan government
authorities are not being truthful about him and his physical state.

Of course,
I’ve never run into anyone, who claims that bin Laden is ALIVE.
But it’s true that here at the Daily Bell we’ve run articles explaining
that bin Laden probably died years ago. See, for instance, “Osama
bin Laden is Dead Again?“

The SPPS
article would likely have you believe this is an outrageous conspiracy
theory. But given that FOX news ran a report on bin Laden’s death
in 2001, and given that Pakistan’s former president Benazir Bhutto
herself claimed that bin Laden died in the early 2000s (supposedly
as the result of an assassination), it doesn’t seem so far-fetched
to speculate that bin Laden didn’t die as the result of a US raid
in 2011.

But that’s
almost minor stuff. Articles like this, despite their scientific
patina, are deeply illiterate. Why so? Because invariably such articles
won’t deal with the bedrock financial illiteracy of current economic
and political paradigms.

Imagine if
the world were based on lies. Well, unfortunately, that’s the truth.
The lies go far beyond “who shot JFK” or whether the US
government was directly or indirectly involved in 9/11.

When one uses
the logical framework of Austrian, free-market analysis to analyze
the Way the World Works in the modern age, one inevitably comes
to the conclusion that modern society is built around fundamental
untruths.

The first one
is economic: It is the idea that central bankers can efficiently
and effectively set the price of money. They cannot.

Every time
central bankers decide on how much money to print or where short
interest rates should be, the decisions are “fixing” prices
– and price-fixing never works. Price-fixing distorts economies
and causes a wealth shift from those who create it to those who
don’t and may not know what to do with it. Over time, aggressively
mis-priced money causes first recessions and then depressions.

The second
lie is that laws and regulations are necessary and that they can
save society from “anarchy.” In fact, anarchy is only
the absence of government. That’s the real definition. And absence
of government does not necessarily imply “chaos.” Just
as setting interest rates fixes the price of money, so every law
and regulation is a price fix as well, preventing someone from doing
something within the context of the marketplace. This also constitutes
a wealth transfer.

One can have
a perfectly adequate and satisfying society without formal government,
certainly without the kinds of intrusive and murderous governments
we’ve got today. History is full of examples of societies that flourished
with at least minimal government, especially societies where power
truly flowed from the bottom up.

The third lie
is that government is essential for purposes of defense and defending
its citizens. But a quick survey of modern wars shows a disturbing
tendency of governments – especially certain Western governments
– to foment the very wars that citizens believe they’re being
protected from.

War is the
“health of the state” – the way that those in power
consolidate their hold while punishing their enemies using phony
pretexts having to do with “treason” and “leaking
classified information.” Sound familiar?

It is what
we call the Internet Reformation that has gradually shed light on
the fundamental untruths permeating modern society in both the developed
and developing world.

The Internet,
like the Gutenberg Press before it, is a revolutionary device that
has allowed people access to information that was hitherto denied
or covered up, especially in the 20th century when the power elite’s
control over society was perhaps at its apex.

A conspiracy
likely DOES exist. The Internet easily reveals not just facts that
illuminate it, but also PATTERNS that show the same command-and-control
strategies implemented throughout history, over and over.

It is easy,
unfortunately, to mock those who believe in so-called “conspiracy
theories” because the truth of what has occurred in this weary
world is so extreme and shocking that most people simply cannot
believe it. What truly horrifies us becomes a target for mockery.
It’s a defense mechanism.

Here’s the
seeming hard truth: A tiny group of Anglosphere banking families
controlling most if not all of the world’s major central banks have
used the trillions to which they have access in order to foment
what can be called a “New World Order.”

This tiny group
of intergenerational plotters and their enablers and associates
have apparently built a seamless matrix of control around the entire
globe to implement their schemes. They are building world government
and are putting in place its building blocks.

What is it
about the UN, IMF, World Bank, International Criminal Court, World
Health Organization and hundreds of others lesser known globalist
facilities that people who deny or decry modern “conspiracy
theory” don’t understand?

An entire gamut
of globalist entities has been superimposed on the world in the
past 75 years. Most recently – only this past week, in fact
– the US military held a formal exercise over the skies of
Los Angeles using the same black helicopters that conspiracy theorists
were mocked for mentioning not a decade ago.

But the biggest
issue by far – bigger than even the establishment of the facilities
of the New World Order – is the fundamental illiteracy of those
who choose to support modern society as it is today and as it has
evolved over the past 100 years.

While human
societies have always been based on fairly bizarre rituals, it is
safe to say that the current crop of behind-the-scenes leaders have
raised statist insanity to a new level.

Every part
of modern society, from its basic economic building blocks to its
liturgical belief in dysfunctional “laws and regulations”
to its deep-seated reverence for the manipulated destruction of
war, is questionable on a factual basis.

The reality
of modern society is increasingly pathological – and the ones
with the pathology are those who lead the rest of us along using
paradigms that are evidently and obviously dishonest and dysfunctional.

Articles that
mock the looniness of “conspiratorialists” need to deal
with the fundamental economic and sociopolitical dishonesty of their
own assumptions. They should begin by admitting the evident and
obvious logical fallacies of the “modern” society they
celebrate.

I’m not holding
my breath.

Reprinted
with permission from The
Daily Bell.

January
30, 2012

Anthony
Wile is an author, columnist, media commentator and entrepreneur
focused on developing projects that promote the general advancement
of free-market thinking concepts. He is the chief editor of the
popular free-market oriented news site, TheDailyBell.com.
Mr. Wile is the Executive Director of The Foundation for the Advancement
of Free-Market Thinking – a non-profit Liechtenstein-based foundation.
His most popular book, High
Alert, is now in its third edition and available in several
languages. Other notable books written by Mr. Wile include The
Liberation of Flockhead (2002) and The Value of Gold (2002).

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