Since about … oh, let’s say, last November, I have become more and more of a believer in conspiracy theories. It can only explain the current state of the world. Be it aliens, time travelers or, most probably, an international cabal of bankers that runs the entire world’s monetary systems, it all starts to make sense. I guess I am a kook. But when the Apocalypse happens and the New World Order comes knocking on your door to force you to take a vaccine and confiscate your guns, I’ll be happily holed up in a secret forested compound waiting shit out. See you in hell, Bilderburg-funded Shadow Government!
Many of these ideas are compounded by Jim Marrs and his website, which, even after reading ABOVE TOP SECRET: UNCOVER THE MYSTERIES OF THE DIGITAL AGE, I still haven’t been to, for fear that it is some sort of psi-ops trick meant to track me. Gotta stay one step ahead!
However, if Marrs’ book — a collection of the “hottest topics” from the site’s forums — is any indication, it’s probably a fun read, albeit one that goes places even I’ll think are a bit too nutty. (Or maybe that’s what they want me to think …)
Marrs, whom I have heard multiple times on COAST2COAST, goes into the who, what, why, when and where about topics such as:
• if 9/11 was an inside job (probably);
• is the supply of oil peaking (I wouldn’t doubt it);
• do road signs contain hidden codes for invading UN forces (I’m pretty sure of it); and
• if chemtrails are for real (of course! coughcoughcough)
Using many Freedom of Information Act documents, newspaper clippings and anecdotal evidence, Marrs does his best to try to either prove or disprove each theory, for better or worse, without looking too much like a raving loon.
While those are all interesting enough topics, the fun really starts when he digs deeper into the more outré, unexplained discussions, such as:
• if there is a secret Nazi base in Antarctica (all signs point to no);
• is God an alien (technically, this makes sense) who parked the Moon in such an improbable position to complement the Earth’s needs (this was intriguing); and
• the story of John Titor, supposedly a time-traveling soldier for a futuristic civil war who came back to collect computer parts and family photos while also finding the time to post on Internet message boards. It’s like a real-life TERMINATOR. Harlan Ellison, call your lawyer!
Even if you think that all of this stuff is total nonsense, to be believed only by the tinfoil-hat crowd, you’ve gotta admit that it is all extremely interesting and, even more, that you secretly want to believe in it. It’s way more comforting to believe that there is an intense, never-ending conspiracy to destroy the world — otherwise, it’s all just coincidental human stupidity, which terrifies the hell out of me even more. Please save us, Alien God! —Louis Fowler
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