If ever I am talking with an individual who strongly believes in this conspiracy theory, I am the person who nods and goes along with them, because quite frankly I have no clue.
The other day I looked up at the sky on a sunny day and saw a plane leaving one long, clean incision across the sky. Cursing this --I really hate how it looks, whatever it is-- I started to notice this white substance was sputtering. It stopped and started a few times, like the pilot was fiddling with the button or had a few split seconds of hesitstion in fulfilling his ordees to blast those damn little ants with aluminum or whatever.
So I finally think to look up officially what is going on, and I find that these white papercuts overhead are claimed to be condensation from residual water vapour left behind from the jet fuel as they are referred to as "contrails" -- chshshsh, it is a good name they went with, the FAA and the youtibe video has that spooky psyop music in it and the comments obviouslt are filled skeptics that it seems one might be outnumbered if they professed these contrails as true.
The strange thing to me is that I had to look this up, that after decades of being on this planet, and learning cumulous, stratus, cumulumbus clouds' names no one thought to say to me, the little scientist I was, heh, kiddo, those lines are the same thing that you see when you exhale on a cold winter morning, just water vapour like the clouds. The plane poops out clouds, laddy, plane poo. They are clouds all the same, but excreted not from God's fingertips but from the jet engine that hurls over continents through turbo-engine propulsion. Duh.
Was it just so simple no one thought to say it like how the little black dots on strawberries are there because they fell from the night sky?
Enjoy the read. I am reading it. DYOR right?
https://www.amazon.es/Chemtrails-Exposed-New-Manhattan-Project/dp/1510785094
Or on Daniel Prince's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5tQUpA8nsjbKWkS15PgVvd?si=7c18b4b4a6c34d53&nd=1&dlsi=a48a3743b06c42cb
You know what?
I have this picture on my phone, but it’s because I may want to use it to set an exam question haha
Why not both. It's uncontested that the CIA sprayed stuff on US cities. But also, it is very unlikely that all contrails are government or corporations spraying things in the atmosphere.
Cloud seeding is another conspiracy theory that really is not a theory. Its just that people like to claim it is done when they can't prove it.
I've written about conspiracy theories a few times here and what I have noticed is how a certain group of people seem to beleive every theory they hear and make it easy for normies to keep their heads in the sand. Both extremes are not helpful.
The stuff the state has admitted to doing is bad enough to distrust it. We don't need to stretch it out. The majority don't even care about what is admitted. What makes people think that if they could just convince them of some other theory it would make a difference?
Most of these theories are based in truth but stretched out to absurdity. My meta theory is that state actors do this to hide the truth.
Bottom line, if Isreal killed A guy, or the US gov is spraying chemicals on the populace it makes no difference to my world view. I have long believed they would do anything to maintain power from history. None of these theories can make me more convinced the state is evil. Already red pilled.
True.
I'm not sure it really would, but it is an interesting sociological point. I think it ties in with identity and signalling tribal allegiences. Even being red-pilled. You are not wrong to self identify as red-pilled and I even appreciate the point of view, but then what keeps a person from sliding into constant distrust and skepticism to the point of pathology? It reminds me of what you wrote a little while ago about bias.
Do you think it is by having belief in a power greater than man?
Having a world view that includes a positive narrative thread through history helps. I think the problem you describe is a deep consequence of modernities over-emphasizing the self. Because we have this false idea that we can be islands in a sea of other individuals we can drift into nialism.
Honestly most people that take a bottle of red pills... at least from my experience actually just start trusting a new tribe of scammers.
I think the solution is community. Knowing and being known. Building relationships. Rejecting the lie that the online world is real. It's fake. It matters but it isn't as important as we think it is.
I do think cynicism is a real problem. But I don't think the solution is to be more niave. We need to be humble about what we don't know. That goes both ways. With trust and mistrust. Been doing a lot of soul searching recently about this topic
There's a local well-known bitcoiner that's been going pretty hard on chem trails. Personally, for entertainment value alone, I like both good and bad conspiracy theories. But I hate them being a sidecar to bitcoin. Bitcoiners are already seen as monetary flat earthers.
Anyway, not having looked into it, I suspect we have sprayed things from planes in an attempt to modify the weather. Have people done this intending to cause natural disasters? Optimistically, I'd say no. Have people done this and accidentally caused natural disasters? It's plausible. Is weather modification super common? I'd guess not.
Also, if someone is serious about chemtrails, they should stop calling them chemtrails. Call it weather modification or whatever nuanced thing you think it is else you get lumped in with people claiming they're spraying autism and satanism into the atmosphere.
If someone comes up with a catchy enough name, I bet we can convince a scary amount of people that most stars in the sky are cameras.
One the best one I've heard that the birds are dones. Sometimes I like to pretend Putin is a peeping tom looking in my window through little beady back eyes.
From a comedic perspective, Birds Aren't Real is a good one.
It's funny because, unlike chemtrails or earth shapes, and lacking the scientific literacy element, it's easy to disprove and people believe it anyway.
If I didnt believe it myself, I'd have thought nobody believed in this one. But I guess some people really can be that stupid. Iykyk.
It's a nitpick, but I don't believe it's as simple as people being stupid. I think it's people being suspicious, suggestible, and algorithmically educated.[1] i.e. they reject mainstream anything, believe what harmonizes with their brain waves, and are served weapons grade dopaminergic content.
ironically, such algorithms are made and tuned by physics phds in many cases. ↩
It sounds uncheritable, but i think people are mostly to blame. And while you say suggestible i say stupid. My opinion is that each person has, at a minimum, the responsibility to use their brain and putting the onus completely on the technology/the system feels a little like saying guns kill people.
Exactly. Confirmation bias can be a deadly disease.
Interesting. I wonder what it might be doing to humanity that children and teens often can have "answers" to questions before they can even pose them to their parents. Talking to parents, they might be wrong, but at least there is tge built in feature that eventually you see their foibles and realize maybe they haven't actuslly gotten it all worked out.
While the real peeper is Google. On my not-very-secure phone I have the Graphene and sandboxed+uninitialized Google Play Services setup (needed for Signal video calling compatibility) but without logging in. It just sits there and runs the background service.
The amount of shit it tries to do is insane. It polls and monitors networks (cellular.) You turn on Wifi or Bluetooth it starts polling that too. It tries to connect to
gtalk. It tries to download fonts. And this is without ever opening it or logging in to Google. And after actually going into the sandbox configuration and turning everything off that can be turned off.MJ had the right feeling... just 30 years early to the game.
https://soundcloud.com/top-of-the-pops-80s/somebodys-watching-me
I would be more inclined to research it if literally every time someone screams at clouds, it wouldn't turn out to be commercial flights.
Still waiting for ground crew member to show me where the "chams" are stored on a yet.
https://twiiit.com/i/status/2022911823377547441
So it was true all along omg what?!
truth is I don't know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHPmW-XKfCM
Another conspiracy theory?
You decide!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHPmW-XKfCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHPmW-XKfCM