Go on, BE CURIOUS!

01/08/2009 by AJ.

You probably remember the time as a child when your curiosity was admired. With our cats, it’s the same. Whatever they investigate is met with a mixture of laughter and awe. So, given that it seems such a valued trait, how come when you get to adulthood, displaying such is treated with so much disdain?

I mention it as one of the speakers at the Glastonbury Symposium this year (my first time of attending it, by the way) said that if we did nothing else in our lives, we should be curious.  Suzanne Taylor, an American, who has just produced what is the definitive film on the crop circle phenomena, relayed that this was one trait we should always be proud of. She mentioned how her intellectual friends had disowned her for making a documentary about a phenomena that, to those who continue to pay any attention to the mainstream media, you would think had been discredited. She didn’t mind their intolerance, as their reaction said more about them than it did about her.

Fast forward to breakfast at the B&B on my second day in Glastonbury – a Saturday. Our landlady made a sweeping statement about not believing any conspiracy theories, forcefully addressed to myself and an Australian lady who were swapping stories connected to the Friday symposium talks. As an ex-Civil Servant our host made the statement that our leaders couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery, but a more polite way of saying the same. I noted that I was also a civil servant, and that it wasn’t us ‘pen pushers’ who would have been involved in orchestrating the conspiracies, it would be people so highly trained that the SAS would have been beneath them.

The next scattergun response was for me to consider the “nonsense” that was the Diana conspiracy. Having been able to stop people in their tracks before on this, I went in with my usual bombshell: yeah, how come every CCTV camera on the route in Paris that night was turned off - part of a refitted system that had just been put in place for the France 98 football World Cup?

No, they had been working, as our landlady had seen the Diana Mercedes speed into the tunnel, pass the white Fiat Uno, and crash into the 13th pillar.

Cue a moment of dumbfounded silence. What was being related to us as stone cold fact was one of the numerous reconstructions that had been made for TV to surmise what had happened.  This was now a cheat of memory, the event having been designated as real in orchestrating this lady’s recollection.

There have never been any images released from those CCTV cameras around Paris before the crash. We are told that the tapes do not exist.  All of them for the relevant few minutes, all failed to operate. Thus, we have an incident much the same as when Americans were polled recently, and a significant number believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11.

So, in processing all the information, the Reader’s Digest version in her personal history had edited things in such a way that ‘Conspiracy nuts’ were talking nonsense by suggesting that the CCTV cameras had not been working, as the public had been shown the lead up to, and the actual, crash.

All a lot easier than actually investigating the evidence. Of course, me saying that what she was relating was the content of a reconstruction of part of a documentary was met with a belligerent snort. How do you actually tell people they are wrong when you don’t have a DVD and player in your pocket to show that their own memory has cheated them?

But, this is part of the game. Every day the enlightened ‘conspiracy theorist’ gets more opportunities to see what people have stuffed inside their heads, and what you have to un-bung so that the truth can flow through them. It’s a big task, but the sooner each and every one of us joins in the quest to get the truth to everyone, the better.

Of course, it’s only now that I remember the response I’d once heard to the opinion that those in charge did not have the organisational ability, let alone the sort of closed ranks needed, to keep such things a secret. The answer is simple: The Manhattan Project. A fair few people were involved in keeping the development of atomic bombs secret, and it was kept confidential until after the time when there was no danger from the details being released. It is one of those examples that simply cannot be denied as a reality, of when people were silenced.

More modern examples, 9-11 for instance, are still in the bracket where people keep quiet about them under pain of death. The reasoning going that if anything dodgy had been going on we would have heard about it. The simple truth is that people have TRIED to tell what they know.  Well, they have been ridiculed, via ad hominem attacks, ignored, or died in mysterious circumstances (Google ‘Barry Jennings’ if you don’t believe this happens).

So, I’m in a pub in Glastonbury now, of a lunchtime and listening to that Motown classic “Nowhere to run, baby, nowhere to hide”. In the end that’s the bottom line. The truth really has nothing to fear from investigation. And suggesting that conspiracies could never happen because those behind them are too inept really shows a belief in an incredibly naïve world view. As well as a lack of accurate historical knowledge of when our glorious leaders really have got away with things.

And as Andy Thomas encouraged at the Glastonbury Symposium this weekend, yes, I AM a Conspiracy Theorist, because there are a lot of events out there with a lot of unanswered questions that are not satisfactorily explained upon investigation. Care to be curious about my concerns, or do you REALLY believe that those in power have our best interests at heart?

And if your answer to that last question is “Yes” then go on, have that swine flu jab. Because that’s exactly what they want you to do.  I love guinea pigs, but not the variety that wear human skin…

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