The Grand Conspiracy of Disenchanted Vivisection

or, Why Conspiracy Theories are Bigger than Faith.

5,532 words.

There are many inlets one can take to end up in this surprisingly diverse political sector. You might have been an advocate of the Mises Institute until you were clubbed over the head with Israel. Or you were an Orthodox Christian who had their shoes thrown up on the telephone wires by a Black infant. Whatever it might be, my greatest affection is aimed towards those who entered through the world of conspiracy theories. It is common to dismiss these people as low-class or simply mentally ill, but I find the Spinal Vitality of these individuals to be unmatched.

If you think UFOs are beneath you, I will not trust any of your economic prescriptions.

Over time I have stepped away from most of the popular conspiracies as even the wildest flights of the more extreme positions hold little entertainment value for me anymore. When I read “Behold a Pale Horse” by Bill Cooper, I can appreciate the importance of its legacy but when he says near the end that the dark side of the moon has been colonized by every nation because it is covered in lush jungles generating breathable air, I no longer mouth the word “cool.” The Tartaria discourse is exhausting aside from the comedy of believing the White House was just sitting there waiting when European settlers arrived in America.

Big Ben was FREE, and they TOOK IT.

If you ever find yourself discussing these highly evocative worldviews with regular people, you'll encounter a Pavlovian rejection of large networks enacting their shadowy agendas upon the world, as there is a levelling of the most preposterous alongside the generally accepted ones. It's simply something you must avoid if you desire to be taken seriously. However within even the most outrageous claims there is always a kernel of either truth or insight into what triggered these assertions.

Broaching the topic of Satanic Pedophile Elite Cults will elicit eye rolls, triggering expectations that it's another bombastic Infowars rant against a doppelganger of vague authoritarianism, bucketed thereafter as a metaphor.

Let's see if we can locate the kernels of truth in what has now become a post-ironic meme.

Marc Dutroux was convicted along with his wife in 1989 for the rape and violent abuse of five young girls, the youngest of whom was just eleven. As the evidence was mounting, Dutroux was accused being a key player in an international child prostitution and pornography ring whose practices included kidnapping, rape, sadistic torture, and murder. Even the press speaks openly about the validity of suspicions of his connections to an organization with ties to state power.

Dutroux was not a serial killer in any of the definitions provided by behavioral scientists. He was a profit driven and rather marginal figure on the periphery of a particularly brutal child sex trafficking network. The claim was that Dutroux was merely the frontline employee of a much larger and more nefarious network of individuals that trafficked in children and teens. Dutroux would keep them in the dungeon in the basement of his house and then pass them off down the chain.

The best place start among the generally forgotten facts would probably be with the fact Dutroux somehow managed to accrue enough wealth as an unemployed electrician to own seven properties. Soon after his arrest it was revealed he had around ten bank accounts across Europe, and large sums had been transferred into and between these accounts over a period of ten years, and large lines of bank credit had been made available to him.

This is a thread that law enforcement agencies across the world are unable or unwilling to pull.

If the Marc Dutroux case was a peculiarity, it would still be a disturbing story for the level of unspeakable corruption and depravity of the Belgian political and law enforcement establishment of which it speaks. But another line item would be Jimmy Saville, British luminary and one of the most notorious child sex abusers in European history, boasting a remarkable ability to flaunt his excesses right up until his death. His exploits include funding a section a children’s hospital for the express purpose of molesting the sick and injured children, an unimaginably evil plot that would require the complicity of multiple dimensions of our society to perpetuate as a so-called "open secret."

Then there is the puzzling case of the killer clown known as John Wayne Gacy. The alternative accusation to the accepted story is that Gacy was not actually able to kill alone, although he was clearly capable of raping and torturing his helpless young men. His initial statements to the police following his arrest indicated there were others involved in the actual killings, and Gacy’s house was just a convenient place to dispose of the bodies. Gacy was arrested at a gas station that same day and when he arrived at the police station he reportedly said, “who else do we have in the police station. There are others involved.”

Gacy’s statement was that at least a half-dozen people known to have keys to his home. During his interrogation he named both David Cram and Michael Rossi as accomplices who had primarily buried the bodies. According to testimonies provided by Cram and Rossi, Gacy claimed to work for a crime syndicate involved in "setting people up."

The accusation is never that these individuals are innocent patsies; they are certainly violent and deranged perverts, but these qualities make them useful agents for larger organizations. For one reason or another they are either funded or permitted to conduct these depraved acts.

You have likely seen stories such as these in irregular excerpts over a lifetime of media exposure, consumed them in passing, then shook your head at the momentary wickedness of the world. You have been conditioned to believe that these are but twisted aberrations; glitches in the system that, as the news reports, are being justly corrected. It was just a fat clown who had a crawlspace full of dead men, and he did it because there's insane people in the world.

The true conspiracy lurks beneath the surface, and very few possess the constitution to peer into it since pulling at these threads may unravel the entire ligature of your civilization.

It is much easier to believe in lone wolves that are punished by the system, otherwise known as the Sick Man of History Theory. From a counter-perspective, these individuals are cast as scapegoats as described in the work René Girard: necessary sacrifices to release the pressure in a community after evil has reached a critical mass so it can revert back to the mean and begin the cycle again. In this framework there is the community of innocents and the machinations of Satan manipulating them. In our framework, rather than one heterogeneous mass of “The People,” a more dynamic relationship between entrenched sects emerges between which the forces of malignant entropy can traverse.

The Lone Wolf explanation of social catastrophes is much flimsier than most assume. As the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit gained legitimacy during the 1970s, the emerging science of criminal profiling was thrust upon the American people, with the term “serial killer” entering the national lexicon. It has been an electric curiosity within our culture ever since.

“The Phoenix Program has been referenced a number of times in past chapters, and its relevance to this discussion cannot be overstated. Phoenix was, by design, a psychological warfare operation. Its goal was, quite literally, to scare the hell out of the Vietnamese people—to such an extent that their will would be broken and they would accede to the demands of their would-be oppressors. The crime scenes of the Phoenix Program were, in other words, indistinguishable from the crime scenes of America’s serial killers. The goals of psychological warfare are no different here at home than they were in Southeast Asia or Central America: to scare the people, in this case the American people, into willingly surrendering their rights and accepting ever increasing levels of repression; and to desensitize the people to horrendous levels of interpersonal violence.” – David McGowan, Programmed to Kill

Some say the concept of the ‘serial killer profile’ was put forth largely to misinform the public, mainly the presupposition that they always act alone and in the interest of singular and often fetishistic desires. It appears that some of the most notable case studies have ties to employers, and many worked with accomplices. In the case of one of America’s most notorious serial murderers Henry Lee Lucas, few if any of the accepted serial killer trendlines seem to apply. It has been officially acknowledged that Lucas worked with not just one, but at times as many as three accomplices.

If we were to take him at his word, a picture was painted of this toothless miscreant working hand-in-glove with the American government to take out inconvenient figures mixed in with his typical murders. He confessed to a myriad of bombastic tales recounting training by the American government in Mexico for the purposes of wetwork, however many of his claims are dubious at best. Despite this, he broke the standard template of a lone predator.

This alternative Manchurian Pervert model further explains how these individuals are chosen not just for their sociopathy but their malleability to suggestion through a traumatic childhood; trauma is always the key to smithing the ideal tool. While it is to be seen whether children are purposefully traumatized to create recruits for sinister operations – they too disposable pawns dispersed to the frontlines – has yet to be fully disclosed.

All we know is that experiments such as these have occurred in the 20th century, the subjects being American and Canadian citizens during the infamous trials known as MKULTRA.

When MKULTRA ended in 1973, the claim is mind-control experiments had continued under different titles and perhaps off the record. Elements within the CIA would have turned from academics to "alternative lifestyle" communities - including pedophile rings and cults - as conduits to carry out trauma-based investigations into suggestion.

It's certainly an entertaining thesis, but does it have legs to stand on? We find a startling validation of this hypothesis in a case popularly known as The Finders.

In 1987 police in Tallahassee, Florida received a call from a member of the public concerned about six disheveled children in a park seemingly under the supervision of two well-dressed men. The men were members of a bizarre commune cult calling itself The Finders, including the children those of women belonging to the group. The children recovered were dirty, malnourished, and after being taken into police custody, one had shown signs of sexual abuse.

As Simon Dovey explains in “Eye of the Chickenhawk,” The Finders had been transporting the children in a white van registered to a warehouse in Washington D.C. Inside the warehouse was discovered: hot tub and sauna facilities, various film sets, a video screening room, a library containing books on mind control, and a room full of networked computer equipment with a satellite link on the roof. A photo album found during the warehouse raid had contained pictures of men and children from The Finders group dressed in robes slaughtering goats.

The press ultimately declared it a hoax reminiscent of the satanic panic: another seemingly inexplicable instance where everyone decided to be concerned about Satanists until they listened to sober minded media to set them straight. Reminiscent of the McMartin School case, it was toxified to the point nobody wanted to bring it up in polite society. The story was too wild, there's simply no reason to believe anyone would abuse children in or around esoteric rituals. It's easier to think everyone just went insane for awhile and then stopped being insane.

The CIA connection to The Finders never received widespread acknowledgment, and the incident soon slipped away into the transience of the news cycle, forgotten about for a number of years. The leader of The Finders, whom the children called “the game-caller”, was a former Air Force Master Sergeant named Marion Pettie. He is but one of many instances where federal, military, or NGO personnel are directly linked to these groups.

“Richards drove around in an orange pinto with 'Jerry the Magician'”' marked on the side, and was pulled over in his distinguishable vehicle on July 23. Inside the glove compartment detectives discovered two envelopes. One contained naked photo’s of boys, the other was a letter Richards had written to a 'Frank Shelden', warning them to 'watch his files & mail & to check his files & get all stuff to North Fox Island.' Richards confessed to molesting boys and in exchange for partial immunity gave detectives the names of two other men he said were principal figures in a nationwide child porn operation, of which he claimed to be merely on the periphery of. These were Francis Duffield Shelden and Dyer Grossman. Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old money establishment family in Michigan. As such, Francis Shelden was endowed with a trust which allowed him to pursue a leisurely life of ‘philanthropy’, which in his case took a particular interest in youth charity.” – Simon Dovey, Eye of the Chickenhawk

Just because the government has direct ties to bizarre rituals involving children, the proven capacity to permit mass molestation in the interest of the public good, and a history of mind control experiments harnessing abuse doesn't mean they are in any other way involved in the global trafficking of children. In 1983, Haroon & Carole Kasir operated a suburban hotel at the address called the Elm Guest House in the United Kingdom, operating a group known as ”Spartacus Club." After the premise was raided by police, it was reported visitors were provided with a price-listed menu of sex to indulge in with boys as young as ten. Twenty-three men were detained, found amongst bedroom suites festooned in whips, chains, and ropes.

That same year, a Tory MP named Geoffrey Dickens handed the Secretary of the Home Office Leon Brittan a dossier on members of parliament and the Queen’s royal staff alleged to have been part of a VIP pedophile ring, with ties to a group called the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE.) Not long after, an investigation was launched by metropolitan police into historical allegations of child abuse at the hands of a VIP pedophile ring, allegedly made up of high-ranking government officials who frequented the Spartacus Club. Records from the Elm Guest House sign-in book were included among the photos seized by officials.

Does this mean that all serial killers and child sex abuse organizations are operating with the consent of the government? Or as David McGowan posits: in the dark and ugly netherworld where violent crime and covert operations collide, are there truly two general categories into which a large majority of those we label ‘serial killers’ can be sorted: controlled assassins, and controlled patsies?

I think not, and it appears Ted Bundy simply loved raping and beating women. There indeed exist lone predators out there. Additionally, there are organizations proven to exist exist that fulfill these ends, and every time one of these organizations is uncovered - especially when it has direct connections to government officials in the highest echelons of power - the media treats it as an elementary if lurid happenstance.

We understand now that the consensus around serial killers is flimsy at best, and we have begun gathering cases where society’s elites are at the very least propping this industry up. But how involved is the government, really?

Do intelligence agencies actually take a hand in organized domestic affairs, or is the era of MKULTRA yet another random glitch in our otherwise just system? Let’s talk about the Patriot Conspiracy Program, otherwise known as PATCON.

How the tale of Timothy McVeigh, the face of home-grown terrorism, plays-out depends on which of his confessions you decide to believe. Many astounding breadcrumbs, even those strewn by McVeigh himself, have been officially devoured by the assertion that no one else was significantly involved. He was known to tell tall tales of being an elite spy, but how much can we rely on the anecdotal evidence from a man sitting on death row?

Within all the most popular explanations and their subvariants, McVeigh is no longer the mastermind or primary villain in the bombing plot, never acts entirely alone, and is always one of several additional unidentified and/or unapprehended conspirators who helped conceive of, plan, fund and execute the bombing. Therefore, McVeigh’s culpability is mitigated and his role is usurped by Others Unknown. Rather than a lone wolf, the set of "Wolfpack" theories explain how, while over 226 people reported seeing one or more John Does with McVeigh in the months before the bombing, everyone who saw him the morning of the explosion saw him with accomplices.

The attack was much larger than the public was led to believe, yet the narrative of Timothy McVeigh as a lonely and mentally unstable White Supremacist persists.

The American government has its fingerprints all over the leadup to the bombing, and they would be the main beneficiaries of a coverup that falls apart under basic scrutiny. By 1990, undercover federal informants and agents positioned within targeted patriot and militia groups began reporting the development of violent criminal conspiracies in the burgeoning antigovernment movements. On March 1991, FBI Assistant Director Larry Potts authorized PATCON: a national multi-agency domestic anti-terrorism initiative meant to disrupt these plots and bring criminal charges against the conspirators. McVeigh himself asserted during the SFAS at Ft. Bragg that he was deeply ingrained in this network, part of a covert assignment which entailed acting as a “military consultant working hand in hand with civilian police agencies.”

“It seems you can’t go anywhere these days without a fed trying to hand you a bomb and some blueprints. Recently, a mentally ill homeless man in my hometown of Rochester, New York, was arrested for his own “terrorist plot” after the FBI drove him to Walmart, bought him a machete and other tools of terror, and pressured him into voicing his desire to hack up people at a local bar on New Year's Eve. The arrest immediately made national news and everyone was freaking out. One local news article actually reported that the man had been arrested for “carrying out an attack,” as if the Machete Massacre of 2016 had already occurred!” – Wendy Painting, Aberration in the Heartland of the Real

Similar to the violent right-wing rhetoric and dissent it ostensibly sought to quell, PATCON spiraled out of control. In attempts to prove they were not “Feds,” PATCON agents and informants set about successfully arranging the theft (often from military bases), sale, and purchase of related contraband, mostly weapons but occasionally explosives. Like in the FBI’s COINTELPRO strategy, operatives started their own organizations and sometimes engaged in unjustified criminal acts. More than a few suggested blowing up federal buildings and one PATCON operative allegedly attempted to get his comrades to destruct a nuclear power plant. While this could be charitably viewed as entrapment, one can also view this as subversive radicalization that might otherwise not be present.

In the murky world of psychological operations, often the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, and those who have “gone dark” in the world of esoteric apocalypse readiness can wind up responsible for a lot of different things. While Timothy McVeigh was undoubtedly responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing, it is without question that he did not act alone, it was proven he was networking intensely in the months leading up to the attack, he had a rich confessional history pertaining to being in league with shadowy government departments, and most importantly, the American security apparatus has a proven history of agitating Americans against their own beliefs.

The government's interest in mass movements was not misguided; the form of political action throughout the 20th century was defined by mass mobilization in every area. The work of Sam Francis, notably Leviathan and its Enemies, describes the reconfiguring of the business and corporate worlds as we know them, transitioning from the bourgeois world of decentralized private ownership to a landscape of conglomerates controlled by a managerial elite driven to standardize their model and grow it indefinitely.

The consequence of this revolution of mass and scale has been the re-organization of human communities at all levels into structures radically different from the institutions of earlier civilizations. Mass organizations are the dominant forms of social organization in the Western world: the bureaucracy, the corporation, unions, academia, media empires, and even religious movements. The complexity of mass organizations, and their dependence on highly technical functions and the skills that perform them, generate elites within them that differ in composition, structure, mentality, and interests from those that presided over the Western world prior to the industrial revolution.

In both the mass state and the mass corporation, organizational enlargement involves a proliferation of highly specialized individuals who excel at mastering complex systems more than skills.

To grapple with this structure is to strike at a fluid hierarchy where no one individual is accountable, and it appears driven by technological ambitions beyond our control. We readily accept that no single person can be held accountable for any grievance; it is the system which is to blame. In a world of mass movements, the proposition that a great man can stand apart is a propagandistic tool to deracinate the radical. It was inevitable for conspiracy theories to scale, matching pace with our fattening institutions and the public's embrace of collective action.

The truth is that everything that happens is a conspiracy, and while we have been granted a new sense of where the winds are blowing, we find ourselves lost in an unfamiliar jungle of power and indescribable agendas.

It's impossible to deny conspiracies of one form or another are driving global events, and the tools they can muster are continually evolving. Across this spread of documented events we have established the system's willingness to conduct trauma-based psychological experiments on its own citizens, its interest in creating agents capable of committing extreme violence, its direct connections to the operation of child sex abuse groups, the frequency with which federal employees are caught participating in the trafficking of kidnapped children for clandestine meetings, and the interest of mainstream psychology in dismissing most of these case studies as one-off lone wolf aberrations. Most importantly, we have seen how these schemes can veer off course and take on minds of their own, and those individuals accountable recede into obscurity.

Edges must be drawn to connect these nodes, but it is not difficult to see the silhouette of something horrific lurking in the furthest reaches of our civilization.

This is where you should pivot your cynicism and direct it not to the accuser but rather the accused. These are but fragments plucked from a substantial pile sitting mountainous in plain view. It is to illustrate that there ought to be enough to detect the shape of something abhorrent and massive lurking beyond political ideology and behind the economics of global affairs. It is ever-present in our peripheral vision; there’s nobody you can query who wouldn’t tell you that something like this couldn’t happen, but they will for some reason deny there is any evidence of it in the particular.

Despite the mainstream disregard for what it deems to be “conspiracy theories” - the term itself allegedly issued by the CIA as a way to discredit such inquiries - it appears that they have become the concensus in North America. Trust in the organs of the state has been tracking a steady decline to reach a historic low, and there has simply been too much unearthing of clandestine activities – including psychological operations – for the average voter to disregard.

Some have asserted that Conspiracy Theories are the new American religion, but I posit it’s something apart.

Our drive to puzzle out vast conspiracy networks is a function of us drawing ever-widening circles around components of our world which could previously not be cracked open. Our trust in the system has declined in inverse correlation to our understanding of how the system operates. We have collectively been exposed to shocking occurrences like those outlined above, and radical notions such as Satanic Pedophile Kidnapping Cults have elbowed their way into the national consciousness. This has ejected the average voter from the context of their own society, placing them outside of the power structure and demanding to know the invisible hands guiding the semi-opaque engines of control.

The vibrant spirit of the polis has been irreparably shattered by our awareness. When we step outside of the context of what we inhabit to investigate its functions, it forever loses its essence. The very same thing happened to Hellenism in Rome.

The history of Graeco-Roman Christianity resolves itself largely into a criticism of the ideas upon which it rested; principally, that it was possible to attain a goal of permanent security, peace and freedom through politics of empire, especially through submission to the virtue and fortune of a political leader. What the Romans later came to demand was a radical revision of first principles which would illuminate a new cosmology and anthropology. While Classicism rejected the possibility of apotheosis - except for the hero - the violent struggle of a nascent Christian faith extended this possibility to all who believed in Christ. It was to be accomplished, not through the development of intrinsic qualities of surpassing excellence, but by submission to a law superior to that of nature. Those who were at one with that law repositioned themselves as superior to nature.

While to critics this may read as enslavement, it broadened the horizons of the conceivable universe and granted increased agency to those who dwelled within it. The revelation on the individual level was the God in whom we live and move and are, which is an exceptionally grand concept if investigated thoroughly.

“The error of Classicism was in this respect original; it could, indeed, be traced to the world of naive experience revealed by Homer and the poets. The world to which Homer introduces his reader is a world of movement, in which impressions succeed one another with lightning rapidity. Against this background emerges the figure of man, face to face with a mysterious universe which his riotous imagination peoples with demonic forces; while, at the same time, his reason struggles vigorously to reduce those forces to some kind of order. [...] Already in the Odyssey, the optimism which the Iliad appears to justify becomes somewhat remote; and, as the vision of triumph to be achieved through wit and endurance , the main ingredients of virtue, fades from the screen, there arises a further, more energetic and, at the same time, more conscious and deliberate search for a principle of understanding. – Charles Cochrane, Christianity and Classical Culture

How Christianity incrementally achieved dominance is a complex and winding analysis. To summarize centuries of rich history begging for subjective interpretation, by the third century Rome was immersed in an existential crisis from which it would ultimately fail to quell. Inflamed by an insatiable thirst for novel forms of experience, members of the aristocracy let themselves go in a protracted orgy of extravagance and debauchery. Among the masses, bread and circuses on a rapidly expanding scale flanked by riots of sensationalism and emotionalism.

When the barbarians once more descended like vultures upon the empire, it was to pluck out the eyes of a corpse. The destruction of private quickly followed that of public law. According to Charles Cochrane, what we witness is a moral and intellectual failure; the failure of the Graeco-Roman mind around which swirled the crises of culture, religion, birthrates, and permissible invasion.

Christianity's subversion of secularism was not to destroy the actual structure of secular society; it was merely to envisage it in a new light. When one's entire mind, body, and spirit are bound up in the State, as the state shudders and cracks as does your being. An expanding empire inviting incursions from the outer regions in the form of Eastern mysticism and multicultural conflict shook the stable ground upon which a Roman citizen's identity stood. For it was to see the state, no longer as the ultimate form of community, but merely as an instrument for regulating the relations of what Augustine calls the 'exterior' man.

This can be seen as nothing less than a mind revolution during an era of immense upheaval, permitting the laypeople to slake their thirst for a more complex outlook with which to reasses the unfurling tapestry of the universe and reassert their place upon it. The Roman empire could no longer provide adequate solutions to the problems vocalized by pagans in a multicultural empire controlled by decadent elites. The immediate world was beheld as smaller and inadequate to vivify the soul of man which had an entirely new conceptualization of itself, granting it the ability to detect the shape of a higher order God.

Here we reach the root of the mental process we have been exploring. At the heart of the self lies the ability to stand outside of oneself and look down from a higher vantage point, thus becoming an outsider in one’s experience. The main developments in the theological and cultural spheres within higher cultures actually represent so many stages along the path to reducing the spiritual bedrock’s otherness, something most fully realized in primitive societies. Religion was totally and completely immersive, and the relationship with the paranormal was literal. This existence is utterly alien to us at present.

Over time the old gods withdrew and simultaneously the unquestionable became questionable; encircled with boundaries and dissected. Even now it appears even the most faithful must apprehend their spirituality from a rationalist balcony, only momentarily glancing upward into an unfamiliar sky while yearning for the immersive faith of their ancestors.

In a universe presented as united, thought corresponds to a logic of the many; in a universe divided between presence and absence, there suddenly appears a way of considering the “One.” One God above all others, who is not an omnipotent player within the universe nor constrained inside of nature. Most importantly, this revelation was not delivered to those blind to it; the citizenry of the empire had sufficient mental faculties to grasp it. Most of the world was unable.

“The disappearance of enchanters and powerful supernatural beings is only the superficial sign of a much deeper revolution in relations between heaven and earth, which decisively reconstructed the human abode separate from the divine. What is currently alive in the Christian faith has no connection with the circumstances surrounding its birth, the conditions that allowed it to assert itself and develop, or the role through which its major themes and variations have been played out.” – Marcel Gauchet, The Disenchantment of the World

The experience of an inner split opens up a fracture in being, which allows an illuminating access from within to more truth than is given by traditional communal existence. Whereas the primitive tribal reality was holistically intertwined and collectively fluid, McLuhan among many others have directed our attention to the European tendency to segment, systematize, and encapsulate. There is indeed no doubt that the savage mind’s system of the origin’s radical otherness and the institution of the unchangeable is at the same time the most thorough method possible for neutralizing the self.

It is in our blood memory to seize and reveal the inner workings of all that we inhabit, even to our own detriment; especially so. We laid the natural world upon the grid as did we with The One. Does God retreat further and beckon us into the outsideness?

Our prerogative: to understand, to master, and to increase. The subjugation of totality, calling for an endless reworking of the entire terrestrial condition and which allows contemporary activism to communicate with the past’s immobility. We make systems containing fractals of other systems, tattooing them upon our psyche as we dominate them through inquiry.

This is closer to what this Conspiracy Culture is in 21^st Century North America. A civilization in crisis invites mass critique and is defined by a quaint spiritual state that can no longer answer the call for a more dynamic understanding of the paranormal world. Once vaunted institutions collapse into disrepute, and revolution (however commoditized) becomes the status quo.

The drama of the critique is all that inspires us now. Organized religion has debased itself under subservience to politics. The tectonic shift has been occurring and this starved howl will echo across time with increasingly ferocious amplitude unless it is satiated.

Conspiracy Culture is a consequence of our genetic predisposition to encircle and understand, and as the basest of the system's human capital is dragged into caustic enlightenment they will be the first to signal the arrival of The New System. The institutional denial of the forces at work will stand as its epitaph. This phenomenon isn’t a religion; it’s the further morphing of the planet into a snow globe floating before us in the darkness while our fixation is tickled by the mind-bending movements in the corners of our eyes.