A Farewell to Conspiracy

When a good thing goes bad...

After having enjoyed conspiracies for many years, I now find myself in the unenviable position of having to debunk conspiracy theorists, including many of my friends.

Why?

Because the conspiracy world has lost its mind. Literally.

Conspiracies used to ask smart questions about inconsistencies in “the official story.” At its best, devoted conspiracy theorists would highlight actual evidence and testimonies that had been discarded or ignored.

No longer. Because when “conspiracy” went mainstream after 2020, many influencers decided that they would go for the big mainstream cash, over credibility.

So, “Ask smart questions,” became the more marketable, “Question everything.”

The difference matters. A smart question comes from a place of having mastered the material to find the gaps in the narrative. It’s an informed perspective.

Most importantly, it bows to the evidence.

In this way, conspiracy theory used to be like detective work. Not for nothing, Scully and Mulder in the landmark conspiracy show “The X-Files” were FBI *detectives.* They had no preconceived notions. They merely went where the evidence took them, no matter what.

But when “Ask smart questions” becomes “Question everything,” one begins with the premise that everything we’re told is a lie, and proceeds from there.

That’s not detective work. It’s hole-punching.

And it’s not creative. It’s destructive.

Which is what we’re seeing. The entire nation is grieving the murder of Charlie Kirk. Besides the blessed tears of his widow Erika, the one thing that will help us heal is closure regarding the murderer, and his means and motive.

This seems pretty open and shut to me. Tyler Robinson is a degenerate white ex-Mormon trans furry homosexual who killed Charlie Kirk for Charlie’s religious and political beliefs about all of that.

Charlie is on the right. Tyler Robinson is on the radical left.

We have means (the rifle), the motive (politics), and opportunity (an unsecured roof and a university courtyard). Done deal. Try. Convict. If convicted by a jury trial, execute.

Then we as a nation can begin to heal, knowing justice has been done.

But that’s not enough for the conspiracy people. They want to rip open the wound again and again, saying it’s Israel or Mossad or some shooter somewhere else…. Anything except what we’re being told by the FBI!

Why? Because it’s “the official narrative.” It MUST be false. There MUST be more to it! It can’t be that simple!

But what if it is? What if for once, everything is exactly as it seems? No grand plan. No machinations. One crazy gunman and a crazy group of friends.

Well then… the whole worldview falls apart. Because sometimes we do see the truth plainly. Sometimes there isn’t more to it. Sometimes it is that simple.

And sometimes there’s more going on than your agenda.

But that’s where the conspiracy world is. Influencers making cash on the idea that everything is a lie, and they are the only ones with the truth. So buy my Patreon or whatever.

Not interested. Because Charlie Kirk’s death isn’t about you.

Anyway, farewell conspiracy world. We had fun with JFK, 9/11, and the Moon Landing. Man, COVID was a hoot, too.

But at some point you stopped looking for the truth, because you believed you found one: that everything is a lie.

As it turns out, that belief is a lie too.

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UPDATE:

Because I’m getting pushback on X for this post. Here’s what I have to say: