My Strong Disdain For Conspiracy Theories 2023

I'm not a fan of Joe Rogan. His show is a melting pot of crackpots and conspiracy theorist. He had literal Nazi's on his show as legitimate guest. There is no credibility. It's the perfect definition of trash radio. It's a platform for lies, conspiracy theories, and pseudo-science. During the COVID outbreak, his show became a platform for false information in regard to the COVID vaccine that was embraced by many of his listeners. 

Thus, his platform became a hotbed of false information has led to the deaths of many people who refused to get vaccinated based on the lies that he perpetrated. While Dr. Fauci was busy saving lives, Rogan's show was busy destroying them. However, he wasn't the only one. Regardless of platform, anyone who shared false and misleading information is responsible for what happens afterwards, regardless of whether it's shared in. What's even more disgraceful is the fact that based on his actions, he doesn't display accountability or responsibility for the false lies that have resulted in horrible pain or even death in the many of his listeners. As such, it's a show that is both morally and ethically bankrupted.

Joe Rogan is only a symptom of the problem though. Conspiracy theories allows people to deny reality by offering scapegoats while remaining blameless. Essentially, conspiracy theories allows people to avoid taking responsibility and accountability for actions of their own making while conjuring up imaginary demons to take their place.

"No, NO! John Wilkes Booth didn't shoot Lincoln because he was a hard-core racist with extreme Confederate sympathies. No! We got it all wrong. He killed him because Lincoln was going to expose Free Mansion ideology that Wilkes was a part of. That is the REAL reason why he killed Lincoln! That is the reason that those EVIL Liberals are hiding from our corrupted high-school students. THE REAL TRUTH! Now that you know the REAL reason why John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln, we don't have to cover actual real-world and universal issues like racism and racial violence now! Yayyyyyyyyyyyy! Now let's talk about very important and vital topics about like how the Earth is flat and Bigfoot is out there somewhere and……..

I've covered a lot of these false claims and psuedo-science claims in regard to the COVID vaccine over the years: it changes your DNA, contains a microchip, alters your menstrual cycle, made from baby fetuses, etc. These were the false claims that have resulted in the deaths of countless thousands. 

The Vaccine

The fact is that, yes, a small number of people will die from any given vaccine due to unknown reasons. There have been no exception when it comes to the COVID vaccine. A number of unfortunate victims died from the vaccine due to blood clots due to pre-existing medical conditions that didn't play will with the J+J Vaccine. However, as unfortunate as those deaths are; the total number of those who died worldwide from the vaccine since its inception could be counted on the fingers on a couple of hands. More people died from the virus at its height in one hour than the various vaccines did over the course since its inception. Yet, its the vaccine that people are afraid of. 

As mentioned earlier, I feel that the flood the conspiracy theories against the vaccine originated due to one simple reason; people don't like being proven wrong. When COVID happened, many built a reputation by promoting COVID as false crap. Their livelihoods centered around this. This, I believe that this is where all the ideas of the COVID and later vaccine conspiracies originated. Getting the vaccine would have been an admission that those who promoted COVID as dumb garbage was wrong. Why else would you get a vaccine when one has an manufactured image to live up too. Many would continue to rather put up with living with their image than admit that they were wrong, even if it's detrimental to there health. Here the thing about viruses though; they don't recognize personal beliefs of its of its host. A host is a host, regardless of that person's beliefs.

Did We Learn Anything?

Many of these baseless conspiracy theories were embraced by countless Christians, who even now I still here echoed on occasion. Many thousands of Christians did die. However, many of those thousands died because they let their ignorance consume them by embracing the false lies, and then many others who didn't want to get sick from the virus died at the hands of the ignorant and selfish fools who disregard the real dangers of the virus. At the end of the day, do the reckless have any remorse or feel any responsibility for the pain that they caused? For the preachers that jammed pack there churches during the outbreak, causing the virus to run without restraint and causing sickness and death among the congregation and fed by paranoia perpetrated by baseless lies and conspiracy theories; do they feel any remorse, regret, or feel responsibility for the pain that they afflicted upon their congregation? What about in retrospect? What about those who spread such lies on social media. Do they feel any responsibility for the content that they posted that had real-world consequences. Or do they just save face while declaring that they have no regret because their selfish actions is quote "faith" and "God's will" while viewing the concepts of social ethics as a godless construct while also enslaving themselves to such lies? How about those who screamed about their rights at the top of their lungs while showing complete disregard for the rights of those who didn't want to get sick of the virus and passed off their selfish refusal to wear the mask as making some grand statement and declaration? 

Conspiracy theories allows people to distort history and their own selves by clinging onto scapegoats rather than acknowledging that we ourselves can be our own worst enemy when we become paranoid and embrace lies.

At the end of the day, 

I'm going to vase my opinion off of whatever compelling evidence is presented before me. I'm going to listen to an expert in their field before I'm going to listen to some random chump on the street. The words of crackpots and conspiracy theorist doesn't mean anything to me. The fact is that even if in the rare chance that a crackpot or conspiracy theorist turns out to be right about any one particular incident, they would still be wrong because they based their claim on bias and prejudice, and not empirical evidence.

I would have believed in the 2020 Election myth if their was actual evidence to support it. And no, sensationalized crap from Briebart, Newsmax, Joe Rogan, WND, or countless others doesn't count as "evidence". Sorry to burst that bubble.