Everywhere conspiracy theories, the world’s spinning so fast, they’re writhing on the net, you can catch them from your friends because
there’s nothing you can see at all clearly
just the gnawing feeling that you’re paying dearly
Conspiracy theorist on the Clapham omnibus, so much to scratch the head about and running short on trust
Some players could be cooking elaborate plots, secretly planning to take the whole lot
It’s a conspiracy theory
Who’s hatching a coup?
see what they’re trying to do?
Folk just can’t help wondering, try fill in all the gaps, as they’re blasted by blizzards of fact-counter-fact
It dazzles people’s brains so they don’t notice that
Perhaps the real truth of it all is missed in the chaff of all those conspiracy theories
The conspiracy word used to kill a notion dead, but now even the best of us can be easily led
But there always was conspiracy, why would there now not be?
It’s just another theory about conspiracy theories
On the news an outrageous corruption is revealed,and folk will sigh and wonder what else remains concealed
always so much, for fevered imaginations to work with, when things get so crazy just conspiracy will fit, juicy conspiracy theory . . .
Where’s the money gone?
Whence does wealth come?
You can’t blame people wondering and trying to understand, why when everything crashes surprise throws up its hands
And everybody loses but some win all the more
And the idea can occur that this all
happens to plan
Though it’s as plain as the fact that we’re all standing on land
Let it be clean, let it be pure, in transparent streams
and no one will have the need or chance to cheat
abundance will dissolve greed, like candleflame in sunlight
Music by Roger Sampson; Lyrics and Melody by John Harris
John Harris – Vocals, Bass; Roger Sampson – Guitar, Drums, Backing Vocals; Matt Hall, Backing Vocals
Produced by John Harris; Engineered by Matt Hall at SLW Studio
It was always been true that large numbers of people believed in unusual theories about things, and conspiracy theories. And who knows? It’s not as if such conspiracies don’t ever happen, many such notions are far from far-fetched. But generally conspiracy theories very much became associated with eccentricity, and calling ideas conspiracy theories became immediately damning. So, for example, a presented case that the whole field of economics was completely redesigned in the interests of a certain group, was easy for a commentator to mock as a conspiracy theory.
For much of history, various ideas about things bubbled away in the undergrowth of the public mind. At a certain point, all of this exploded into view for a while, political figures became happy to appear to associate with some conspiracy theories, were happy to espouse them, even hint at them. This has already fairly quickly become an age where large numbers of people are seemingly ready to believe any number of sometimes astounding theories about the world. Why has this grown? Obviously, the WWW, and the explosion in all sorts of information, re-information, misinformation, and there’s the amplifying action of social media, people don’t all watch the same news on television anymore, read the same newspapers so much, and many have migrated to personal silos, where they exclusively receive information which reinforces what they already tend to think. Maybe even increased loneliness in societies plays a role, and the belonging that people can feel from participating in groups on the web. All these things are part of it, but surely it has much to do with the fact that people increasingly distrust governments and strongly suspect that there’s an awful lot that they don’t know.
In the past, people had weird theories because of a lack of information, but now, as people are bombarded with so many competing truths and lies that it becomes hard to tell them apart, perhaps this has the same effect. All the chaff in the air probably serves the function of obscuring the truth, but that’s, of course, another conspiracy theory.
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