Does Questioning Make You a Conspiracy Theorist?

Embrace the label. It means you’re right on target.

At some point over the last two and a half years I thought if one more person called me a “conspiracy theorist” I might just puke. Preferably right on their shoes.

But then something shifted.

I realized the label might be a compliment. An off-target, unintentional, inadvertent compliment, but a compliment nonetheless.

Remember the good old days when a “conspiracy theory” was something you believed in the absence of evidence?

Yeah, that doesn’t really apply anymore. You can officially toss that definition into the bin with some lighter fluid and a well-aimed match.

These days “conspiracy theory” means any time you question any official narrative for any reason.

Which makes it a handy-dandy tool, if you’re someone who happens to think the official narrative is really swell.

Did I say “tool”? I meant weapon.

Slight hint of discomfort that someone doesn’t believe what you believe? Easy. Whip out your “It’s a Conspiracy Theory!”-5000 Stun Gun.

Questioning neutralized.

One small problem… no one’s buying it anymore.

It really only works as a neutralizer of conversation if it induces shame. And it really only works as a shaming device if your target still accepts the old definition… you know, believing something with no evidence.

But on the new, super-shiny, updated-for-the-millennium definition, it means you question things.

Well… yes. Thank you for noticing. Yes, I do.

And more and more, people are questioning things. The world is filling with “conspiracy theorists” by the day. Indeed, the official narrative is so ludicrous on so many issues it’s astonishing that everyone isn’t a “conspiracy theorist” by now.

If we have learned anything over the past twenty-nine months, it’s that it would be astonishingly naïve of us to think that there are not hidden agendas in the power structures of the world, and that the elite class are just Good Guys trying to do Good Things.

But alas, numerous though we may be, we’re still rubbing shoulders with millions of the brainwashed and the hypnotized.

There is still an intended shaming element there, of course. When you say: “that’s a conspiracy theory” you really mean: “How dare you question what the GovMediaCorp™ say on anything? Everyone should always accept the story they are told. You should be ashamed for questioning it.”

Well, sorry, but I question that.

For one, it’s a fairly blatant tactic to make your populace (or really, anyone you disagree with) mindlessly accept whatever you have to say.

Imagine if we ran a criminal courtroom that way.

Imagine we put the defendant on the stand and we unquestioningly accept whatever version of events they have to offer. Strangely, this puts them in the clear and shifts the blame to someone else…pretty much 100% of the time. Hmm, curious, that.

And imagine if the prosecution then stood up and offered a question to the defendant, and the judge cried "conspiracy theorist!" and threw the case out, then and there. In that case, commit all the crimes you want, because no one ever has the ability to question you. No one ever has to be held accountable for a crime. Think of the backlogged cases we could clear with this ingenious stroke of jurisprudence!

Which, of course, is exactly what the spinners of the official narrative want, isn’t it? To act without any accountability or consequences. Like criminals immune to prosecution. And they’ve been getting away with it for quite some time, too.

Cries of “conspiracy theorist!” (or the more manicured “purveyor of misinformation!”) are starting to come off like pleading.

You nasty conspiracy theorists. Please don’t question us.

Please?

Which I take to mean we’re right on target.

There will be an accounting. You can’t put a wrecking ball through millions of lives—cutting them off from family, closing their businesses, capturing their regulatory agencies, firing them from their jobs, maiming and killing their loved ones with experimental mRNA shots, destroying the economy and food supply—and expect the ball won’t come swinging back with a vengeance.

Short of actual trials, which may come eventually, it means trying them in the court of public opinion, which means questioning their version of things. Which further means, when they counter our questions with "conspiracy theorist!" we’re immediately switched on to the fact that they are dodging.

We don’t pause for quivering in shame or defensive anger.

We recognize it, straight off, as a laughably lame tactic to get out of answering a question.

And we see it as a tacit admission that we’re on target, and they are probably guilty of exactly what we are questioning them for.

And we take it as a compliment.

Conspiracy theorist? Oh, you mean someone who is not naïve to the goings-on of the world, who uses their mind to question things that they hear? Yes, I am one of those. Thank you for the compliment!

But, you know, it’s polite to return a compliment. I’m wracking my brain, trying to think how to return it in a way that someone who sneers “conspiracy theorist!” might appreciate.

Perhaps, I don’t know… Narrative Sponge?