UFO/Paranormal Sites Leaning Hard Right In Conspiracy Makes Me Wince

I’ve been keeping up with paranormal and UFO news for many years now. I read all the books from the 60s thru the 90s and then leapt upon the internet by ’96 and the various bits of information I could glean that way. Conspiracy theories are common in certain formats and have been since as far back as I can remember. Lack of information and evidence of that lack not being accidental tends to lend itself to conspiracy.

And, to be clear, conspiracies happen. They do– all the time, in business especially, and in governments. Speculation is a lively mental dance, and when things don’t add up, our natural tendency is to try to figure out why, so of course most theories of this nature are wrong in some way as people ask, “Is it THIS?” or “Is it THAT?” There may be a grain of truth to any given notion or it may be wildly inaccurate.

But some very odd things are true. I’ve had too many personal experiences and known too many other people with similar stories to doubt that. Besides, history often reveals what current events miss! Looking back on things, conspiracies emerge and can eventually just be a part of history. In the now, however, many subjects and true stories are suppressed. There are death bed confessions and old documents that get found or released and so we learn the truth eventually sometimes.

I’m not a wide-eyed conspiracy gonk, because I know how easy it is to get carried away. But for many years, I’ve enjoyed reading various ideas of this nature because the connect-the-threads portion of it is sheer mental masturbation! The hoops one jumps through and the way the info can be connected are just– kind of fun to imagine and compare and contrast. I search for the truth, but settle for a state of permanent ignorance to some extent. Some ideas make more sense to me than others. Regardless, I generally bounce from place to place looking for patterns and comparing what I believe is most likely true with new things that come to light and so on. All the time, simply enjoying the searching process as I go.

Okay– hope that’s all established. I’m not overly invested in very many conspiracy ideas out there, but I am always open to checking out new ideas and information that pops up.

And one thing that I have found very disturbing for the last 20 years, and in the last 3 or 4 years especially, is how cultural and political attitudes connected to the conspiracies have been leaning towards the hard right. More and more, even the once politically neutral info-agents out there, like David Wilcock of Divine Cosmos, have begun cheerleading for and excusing people like Donald Trump, claiming that the obvious criminal is some kind of hero for the masses, standing up to some evil cabal!! If there is any truth to any such thing, the guy is clearly not on the side of “good” — based easily upon his disdain for the Constitution and the rule of law. He’s a shithead and ignoring that ultra-shittiness to claim him as some kind of special envoy to save us all from our Evil Overlords makes me wince like crazy.

Of course, most paranormal sites simply discuss odd reports and evidence and witnesses and possible reasons for what’s behind the reports, but, more and more– the “mission creep” part of the hard right agenda has been infiltrating speculation sites at a higher and higher ratio.

I’m not totally square with the progressive/left-leaning agenda in many areas. I think both main political parties in the U.S. are corrupt and on the payroll of tax-dodging mega-corporations and the billionaire class, for one thing! It’s fucking obvious! So I’m not just bitching because “the wrong side” is winning or anything. Rather, I’m freaked out that a proto-fascist sentiment with truly scary opinions is taking over the bandwidth of the data streams.

That some otherwise intelligent people are falling for the groupthink in this direction galls me. I worry what this will mean for those new to the search, who have just entered their own phase of trying to figure out what all their experiences mean, and coming across this absolute SHIT on the web! It’s harder than ever to suss it all out, and I feel grateful that my own learning trajectory largely by-passed that aspect of conspiracy until I was well into my 40s and had a couple of good decades of experience wading through the junk to find a few gems.

I sense an attempt to manipulate that is, in and of itself, a meta-conspiracy of sorts. When suddenly Jews are lumped in with the bad guys or obvious villains are painted as saviors, something is seriously messed up! At Spiral’s End: What’s Left After the Paradigm Shatters is the personal paranormal blog of a woman that follows not only current odd events in her life, but recounts incidents from her past, including lifelong alien abductions, encounters with ghosts and other spiritual beings, and premonitions from either waking visions or dreams. She reacts and speculates about the deeper meaning behind these incidents and wonders– what is the ultimate reality or intelligence behind it all?