I have a good friend and we agree upon almost everything important, except for one thing, which is at the heart of everything.
The source of our major disagreement is based on a very old problem.
How much of what is going on in the world is intentional, versus how much is accidental.
To be more concrete, is there a cabal of some secret controllers guiding the economy, politics and world events like the pandemic, or is it a matter of chance, an accident of how the world is setup, the behavior of complex systems?
I side with conspiracy and he doesn’t.
This kind of disagreement is as old as time itself and of deep contention, whether it is in philosophy, science, politics or religion.
Take cosmology for example. Its default assumption is that cosmic laws at the Planck scale, due to a necessity in the zero point vacuum, begets the Big Bang and everything that follows. It is bound by law through a necessary accident. A play unfolding. The script was already coded before or at the moment of creation.
Necessary Accidents are rather confusing, especially when coming out of a nothing.
Ex Nihilo.
Think of it as a miracle without a miracle maker.
Mystics and religious people contend something different. That there is a something with intention, which is eternal and ever present. They contend that things do not come out of nothing. That order cannot come out of chaos.
Call it God, the Universal Spirit, the name does not matter.
Let’s take the economy with all its booms and crashes and everything in between.
One side thinks that we have some rules (Laws of the Land), some rule makers (Sovereigns & Governments) and a globe ripe with competitors (Nations & Corporations). There are factories, labor, power plays, wars etc… history till now is a grand game, mostly anarchic at a global scale. No one person directs the party. This soiree is a mobsters event. All the main family’s are involved but no one is truly the head.
The process is evolutionary. It’s started with small tribes and then civilised. The most adept or lucky survived. The Roman Empire came and went, in its place the Byzantine ascended. And on and on.
Yet there is another view.
The chaos is largely a cover for a select few in the highest of powers. A secret cabal with faces unseen, only some interchangeable frontmen. Hidden in the randomness.
This cabal, has many names, you may of heard of some of them, the Illuminati, Masons, the 13 families, etc… etc…
On the face of it, it sounds absurd. Flat earth material. And to be fair, most accounts of it are surreal to idiotic, that is by intention.
However the further one digs in, its seeming probabilities increase. One becomes a blood hound chasing the scent. The sneaky fox however is not easily cornered. It’s more like a reptile with an octopus’ cloaking abilities. Now you see it, now you don’t, it has supernatural abilities. Hence the spiritual see it more easily.
They are already tuned to that frequency.
History gets deleted at periodic moments. Erasing global memories and it switches territories.
How? A Great Blood Sacrifice, an Extinction level event.
Back to the question. Do things happen by chance or are they directed?
It’s a very deep question without a clear answer.
Vikid liked to think of it as Systemic Control.
The system is devised by a select few. However it is not run like a simple contraption. It works by harnessing stochastic events, a stacked fluid slot machine with millions of dials. The House intends to win by hook or crook. The players play earnestly but are fish on the hook. Only the hook is a sea of green dollar bills and the promise of exquisite hoes with narcotics.
The unwilling leaders get lead in the head.
If you go up high enough, this is common practice.
You must understand.
Take Libya. It’s strong man intended to play with the House’s main lever, by creating new credit backed by gold and silver.
The House concocted some commotion about “saving the people”, sent in the jets, rockets and a militia. The strong man was impaled on a stick almost as quick as a blink. Next there were open slave markets on the scene. All hailed the people saved.
The House plays to win but it does it behind the scenes.
Nah! You say.
You’re having an issue with imagination.
Consider your phone. You’ve probably just sent a video clip to a friend. In a few seconds, billions of bits of information, sent by waves of nothing (a vibrating field of emptiness) via a satellite on the edge of space, did the magic trick.
The tech was worked out just a few years ago and put into practice. No one really knows what’s going on but the collective we know how to use it.
Are you so sure you can adjudicate whether The House controls this space? And especially the minds within it?
And that’s,
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