The World of Conspiracies: Tin Foil Hats
Bruno CorzinoThe conspiracy theorist in the tinfoil hat has become a pop icon, the perfect mask for the madman to be avoided. But who invented this caricature? Curiously, precisely those who had an interest in discrediting those who wouldn't kneel before "official science." It's the greatest masterpiece of social engineering: creating an insult to silence those who ask questions. Laughing at the hat helps us forget who put it on humanity's head. Perhaps the real aluminum isn't on the conspiracy theorist's head, but around the collective brain. (Introduction by the Publisher)
For decades, the term " conspiracy theorist " has been circulating, with derogatory connotations. When we think of this term, the image of a person wearing a tinfoil hat comes to mind. But where do this term and this image come from? The image comes from a story by Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley and the (negative) inspiration for his work The New World . He was the founder of the WWF and the first director of UNESCO. In his work , "UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy" (as in all his works), he expresses eugenics and social engineering projects that make the authors of Nazi racial theories appear like innocent children. All of this, of course, is in line with the philosophy of transhumanism, a term, coincidentally, coined by Julian himself. Well, this guy comes up with a term that, among his circle of such people, becomes a derogatory image for anyone who dares to oppose the technocracy of the elite.
In short, the concept of "conspiracy theorist" and the image of the "tin foil hat" as, according to Treccani, " popular fantasy relating to a plan hatched by dark powers to enslave all humanity " is invented precisely by those "dark powers" that the definition implies do not exist. A "conspiracy theorist" is someone who believes in "conspiracy theories," defined by Treccani as "pathological and apocalyptic thinking" and "popular fantasy relating to a plan hatched by dark powers to enslave all humanity." It immediately makes you smile when you think back to how we began the discussion: "the term is circulating."
Here we already see the ambiguity that reigns on this topic. Because nothing "circulates," it's not something born spontaneously from "the people," from "popular culture." Rather, it's a concept consciously created to fulfill a clear social engineering function. That is, to cast social stigma on all those who dare question the tribal taboos that hold together the "society of good people." Those who obey and believe the official narrative of the current authority. Those who oppose it must therefore be despised, isolated, fought against, and possibly eliminated. Those who obey authority, the "official" and "scientific" version (who knows if in 30 years this word will still have the value of dogma it has today), that is, those willing to fight and eliminate anyone who dares to dissent and thus jeopardize their sense of belonging to a tribe, always feel on the side of Right and Good. And here we find the infinite irony that it is precisely these gregarious sheep, continually busy bullying and trying to eliminate those who are different, who are precisely the ones who proclaim themselves against "fascism," "violence," and "totalitarianism."
But enough, we've laughed enough. Obviously, the common man repeats himself and doesn't question the origins of the labels and mental tools he uses. He simply feels that saying "conspiracy theorist" gives him a warm sense of belonging to the soft flock of the "intelligent" and "good" and gives him the opportunity to earn virtue points precisely by lashing out and bullying anything that goes against the herd. And so he automatically becomes ridiculed, excluded, and beaten, a bit like the loser at school who the marginalized attack to reaffirm their belonging to the "normal" crowd. Who, for their part, enjoy the spectacle by nodding in agreement.
This is to say that all these people use the image of the "tin-foil hat" to indicate the "conspiracy theorist," obviously without having any idea who created it or why. And obviously without asking. And nothing, we have to laugh out loud again. In fact, it's precisely from events that can only be described as blatant mockery that more and more people have begun to question the official narrative. And this, obviously, is not something that those who dominate people precisely because of their faith and obedience like at all.
And here Pavlov's dog will object that this in itself is a conspiracy for him, that he is absolutely free and no one dominates him through his obedience and, above all, his faith. He, who boasts of being "faithless," obeys money every day, which is nothing but pure numerical faith. A single tremor in the faith of investors is enough for it to magically vanish. And the entire "objective" world of our tough, "faithless" friend falls to the ground with a clatter of shards, even though he continues to dutifully obey it, performing mechanical tasks he calls "work" and which now, without the faith of the market, no longer repay him with food, shelter, and anything else. After all, we're talking about the same person who, after ridiculing faith and religion, tells you emotionally, with a tear in his eye and a hand on his heart, that he "believes in science."
