Philosophy of Science
Fringe Science: 10/7/08
Micah Sollenberger
While the field of study I have chosen doesn’t have a name just yet, I’m quite confident that in the next one hundred and fifty years or so it will be able to step out of the realm of fringe science and into the world of scientific truth. This area of study is often ridiculed and occasionally “debunked”, but it never seems to be fully explained away. Conspiracy theories are labeled as such by the people accused of manipulating money, government, the mass media and therefore the masses and so instead I will call this study the study of alternative truths.
Now, you might wonder how the study of alternative truths can be anything but an oxymoron given the nature of alternative and the nature of truth, inherently understood as that which is not false. But unfortunately, since the beginning of time, human beings have been manipulating the situations they exist in to better provide for food or water or security or whatever will help them survive longer. Therefore, since the beginning of time there has been what actually happened and what was recorded as having happened. Sometimes these two coincide, and sometimes they don’t.
This leads me to some theories of the study of alternative truths: first, there exists a loosely knit group of ruling elite, many of which bounce between high-level corporate and governmental positions, as well as many non-governmental organizations. These non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) were created by them to pursue an agenda based on the advancement of their own, or others like them. Secondly, this group has been controlling the money supply for almost one hundred years, and similar others have been sitting on billions of dollars since the 1930’s, leaving little doubt that a proactive and focused attempt to infiltrate world politics was impossible.
Thirdly, finding themselves capable of manipulating money (the Great Depression), government (World Bank, IMF, countless interventions in Latin America) and the mass media (read, corporate media), this group has taken every possible opportunity to profit from war, poverty and misery on just about every level of the global stage, due mostly to the trickle down effect of loss, as nobody is willing to suffer greatly so that others may lose less, and conversely nobody is going to give up more so that others may gain little. This has been going on for decades.
Fourthly, it is still going on as we speak. Everything from HIV/AIDS to the “terrorist” bombings of the U.S.S. Cole and 9/11 to the current financial crisis has been pre-determined and carried out in order to pass laws that constrict the rights of U.S. citizens, allow for funding of astronomical proportions (U.S. Defense budget was $500+ billion this/last year) and control populations. Furthermore, “terrorism” is a fabricated illusion of all of our imaginations, planted by those who are in charge of the truths we are told, tended by those that want us to fear one another and watered by those “quo bono”; who benefit.
To asses said claims, allow us to look at the facts; the empirical evidence. There is countless evidence that those in charge of what we understand to be true are withholding some information. The FBI and the CIA both contain more information than I will ever know.
Explanatory power: these claims explain every conceivable suspicious activity that has occurred ever since the Great Depression. They all tie into one main problem and offer one main conclusion for everything. Therefore it has terrific predictive power, as multiple people foresaw the events of September 11 2001 (Aaron Russou, for example).
As far as in-breadth explanatory power is concerned, this one covers them all.
In depth explanatory power: we only know so far as inside agents have been willing to dispose; due to the wickedness of those running the show, most people who spill any beans wind up dead within a few years.
In conclusion, the degree to which this is a good empirical science and whether it should remain a fringe science is tough to tell, mainly because of the conflicting stories between what we are told and what we are able to find out on our own, separately. There are few experiments to run and any conclusions that are contradictory to the official stories are hard to believe, as most people rationalized internally how they wanted to understand and accept as fact what they witnessed in each given circumstance. The truth of the matter is unknown to most of us, but until someone figures out a solution we will continue to be at the whim of the events of the day, regardless of whether or not some group of someone’s is running the world.
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