Sprocket 10 Conspiracy – the Theorem.
The human desire to see in mischance ad cock up conspiracy is one of the those sad and much noted facts. The sheer blind idiocy of things is often rather hard to deal with, particular for those right a the bottom of the heap. The needs reasons why they’re oppressed they need a vent for the complexities of the misery or desperation, a vent as complex as their feeling. They need the a conspiracy, and the mirror to their feeling. This role is to mirror their depth and their anger, on a way blind chance really cannot. The world thereby very easily slips into great personalized struggles, great conspiracies. That is humans live is a necessarily personalized world, where my world is created out of my perceptions, as the space in which I functions. If then something outside occurs with power enough to greatly disrupt this world, then it is natural enough to personalize that force, to see it as an other self . That is a ‘self; opposed to myself, with my desire to pull my mind towers the positive, A self hell bent in contrast on the negative and on pain/ And yet as that self is invisible or is only educible in the weight of this gas tat occur, the they necessarily slip only exiting in the realm the conspiracy, and the inferred malign presence.
However this last movers the advantage of allowing the conspired against soul to position themselves within the team of events. They become victim or hero, and are able t judge the world accordingly. That is other individuals are then able to be judged according to their adherence or not to the conspiracy theory. They ,might eve be open to be demonized, and to become one with them, with the great conspiracy itself. Likewise the weight of event gains itself a patter, it becomes personalized. This step being blind chance, or at east stop being holy blind chance, and become thinkable as whether or not the are part in this great conspiracy that doers so much that would otherwise be random and chaotic in life.
Conspiracy therefore mitigate disaster, but creating a setting big enough for misery to occur within. The trouble with misery (and evil) is that natively they actually all to often lack this bigness of spirit. They are just blind chance or blind selfishness. Lives are marred or destroyed callous force or callous human. The very callousness of this feeling creates in a sense a second and for more corrosive misery to the first: no only is one wretched, but the forces that created that misery do not know or care or notice that misery, that effect they cause. It is into this gap o indifference and unfeeling, that the conspiracy steps. I personalizes the misery, and makes it have value to t causer. They created misery therefore for a arson. A reason that those locked in their own misery can find or fight against or reject. The conspiracy labels then a pain, and gives it value to the individual o the force that created it. In doing so in allows those in the grip of horror to convert their anger into a cause. They become convinced that they must uncover or destroy that conspiracy. They become gripped by the desire to learn what lessons need to be learned, and to then ensure that others needs not suffer. They become convinced that it will be there role in world history, as it uncovers the reasons for this conspiracy, and to make through their misery the world different.
A conspiracy therefore mitigates pain by creating a value for it perpetrator, and meaning for its victim. Moreover this meaning is then sharable both with other individuals, who might well agree with it, as colleagues in suffering or merely onlookers. More than that it allows one to order the facts of the world acceding to this theory, this conspiracy. The originally, misery is ten mitigates out diffused within an endlessly spreading out of that original feeling across the paths of chance and design in the world, as an individual attempts to uncover what was masked. A misery is then lettered down into events, at the price of course that the conspiracy then filters into everything, and become the universal paranoid rubric of a mind.
In the modern post cold war world, conspiracies have become rather more complex than the old someone must have known something of yesteryear (one of the conspiracies of the cold war world was all mischance was either KGB or CIA). This complexity is clearly seen in the current Iraq war enquiry. Here was in a sense e classic cock-up up. The individual predilection of a few individuals in the Whitehouse, and a daffy president was able to drag an otherwise rather competent (and certainly social aware) Prime Minster into a war that the perhaps thought he was resisting The weight of events, and of half discussions and pride are then quite enough to explain the way we got into such a war. And yet such as the misery, such was the mistake, that this is not enough. Nor I the old truth that states actually do not need legal precedent for war. Wars are not that kind of thing. Hey are fought for reasons assuredly but not legal reasons. There must thence cry be something more than this cock up of vanity and bad rhetoric. We therefore demand an investigation,, whose task is less o find out a truth we all know and more to humiliate an individual or a regime and force then to confront their own incompetence of folly. The conspiracy theory is therefore something we invent to give a chance to humiliate another., and when it does not, or when they can answer back or are not humiliated, then we will judge the inquiry somehow and to that extent a failure (and assume their must be other secrets hidden).
Moreover there are clearly three further aspects of conspiracy that modern states exaggerate, and advanced.
Firstly it is clearly that there is in a sense a conspiracy in all government, but just not the one that is usually claimed. Government life is dread of its own incompetent arrogance. That is in a democracy politicians needs to make arrogant claims: they need to claim they will cut waist or help the environment or the poor or whoever. They are after all elected on these claims. The trouble of course I that went they get into power they always find the gem of compromise and management that forms the back ground of the modern state makes these promised rather tricky you enact. They are then forced to find way or means (be they league tables or empty targets) by which they can impress their will on a system that is next o impossible to change. Promised then slip into ‘doable target’. And yet the trouble of course that these doable targets (say league tables when wrap the entire system which becomes about fulfilling the target irrespective of whether the target actually makes sense when it is treated in this manner. In short, in a democracy a government I the very act of enforcing their will, turns government into something akin to a conspiracy. The entire system of government becomes about fulfilling a target, and ding so wherever it is done and whatever the cost. Cheating becomes an option as does creative accountancy and down right lying.
At the same time the very system of government personalizes the inadequacy of a system. A instep is put in change of the cock up, and ought to, in theory take the wrap if that cock up is ever discovered; or at least if they do not actually take the wrap their position or their prospects will be compromised by that cock up. The result is of course that the Minster as much as a department has a vestige interest in keeping thing quit and hiding what is actually doing on. The system then actually needs conspiracies of it own Things are being hidden, and yet not the great conspiracies of truth and wickedness that we so like to imagine, but rather the squalid little complicacy of half lie and half truth, that allow a state to claim that it is doing something, and doing it well.
It is then no wonder given all these problems that politicians have a tendency to personalize any success going on. That is, given the sheer difficulty of actually doing anything good, it is usually far easier to jump upon any good thing that is happening(say economic improvement or whatever) and claim that this happy chance was as a s result of ones publicities. The game of politics is then the game o negative conspiracy. One claims the good things in the world as ones own, one claim or personalizes them, and hope for the credit. This very natural human assertion of credit for the good (we all do it in other spheres), opens the self same politicians up to the negative conspiracies when the shit hits the fan, conspiracies the politicians flee from, and yet can flee, by running towards that conspiracy of silence already considered. Politicians then are caught in a system where they needs use the very stuff of conspiracy theory, the very game of personalizing and claiming credit, they need to appear benevolent conspirators, a fact that then opens them up to abuse or misunderstanding, as things go wrong. The logic then of politics in good and bad times is caught up in the logic of the conspiracy.
Secondly the event of 11/9, has created a world conspiracy theory. That is the far t that one (smallish0 group of individuals got ‘lucky and committed wide scale death and destruction, has been blown into a great fact for our times. We feel there must be a great organization against whom we must wage war in the name of modernity. We (in the west) desperately look for this organization, then hidden force this veritable SPECTR, and finding not we wage in appropriate wars, or start to look for it in the mighty nothings of semi delinquent boy. Or to put it slightly differently the trouble with 11/9 was that the idle dreams of a few of the battle hardened disposed became a televisual horrific reality. A reality that then demanded the world (or at east the world as it is caught in conspiracy) to decide which side in this great conspiracy they were going to be, and to act accordingly. But here of course one needs so much care What that the event opened up for a section of the world that felt that its importance once greatt0 had slipped and been marginalized over many years, was a way to express that frustration and the feelings of rejection that went with it. It gave a focus a way o feel or express alienation. Moreover this alienation was not necessarily simple. Being of not of the culture growing in the west was difficult in its won right. The event’s f 11/9 then gave a way out of that difficulty it gave a conspiracy to blame (the West) and a conspiracy to join (The Brotherhood), and therefore turned personal misery into global politics The sates in the west, shocked by their failure to predict the actions as a few bitter individuals reciprocate, and start the read conspiracy everywhere and anywhere a reading into event that only makes then entire picture more complex and more difficult to solve. The world sipped (for a while) then into dualism of conspiracy theory and over simplification. A simplicity that it took the blood of Iraq to cure in the west at least .
The final deep conspiracy of modernity lies in this very complex. All the time individuals are asked to accept or take on trust techniques or science that do not understand. It is then the duty almost of he modern citizen to trust others, particularly those credited in so way by the state. All are then forced into system of infantisation and regulation. Conspiracy theories then in s seen form the resist to this otherwise rather humiliating position. We argue that there must be more to this than meets the eye. Tat this is not merely about our good (poor little things that we are) but rather it must be about someone or something else’s good (government or drug industry or whatever). In then attacking this half supposed interest, we assert of own individuality against an otherwise all smothering system. In this last point of course the media has rather big role to play. The media know that in repackaging the misery created by the humbling position modernity places its population, as conspiracy or and resistance, money can be made. Conspiracy becomes the big business of its own, and fortunes are made by certainly wallahs or cod drug industries (vitamin pills or remedies) out of this feeling powerlessness. The irony of cause is then that in feeling from the great alluded conspiracy of the state individuals actually fall into the clutches of another rather more organized and genuine conspiracy, one then is self consciously using fear is disquiet to make money.
In a world of deep uncertainty, where individuals feels their position at the bottom of the heap (in someway) conspiracy offer hope. It is then one of the great theorizes of this time, and is likely to remain so The trouble then of all government both individual and collective is the trouble not curing on of these conspiracies (for any cure is simply likely to breed other conspiracies elsewhere in the system), but rather to rationalize them and balance them off one against the other. We might then be able to prevent ourselves from personalizing our world but at last we ought to few that personalization with suspicion (and humour), and so understand how it is very easy for us all the exist within the conspiracy to conspire.
