The X Files is back in the zeitgeist
A post for Wikianon, because it's just too darn big for an Ask box.
You may recall I’ve raised this before in an ask, but I’m raising it again because I think it worth saying:
How can you confirm that someone was a “client” of SH based on their claim? It’s a rhetorical question, because short of pictures, I really don’t see how it can be proven. When it comes to questions of who did what, and with whom, if courts struggle to find answers, and print media often get sued, what makes this situation different?
I’ve been reading your blog, and others like it, for some time now. I’m not buying the narrative we’re being sold, and I find the sources you have provide interesting material. They may be the real deal, they may not, I can’t possibly know. But their comments and insights are plausible so, to an extent, I take it on trust that they’ve been checked out and are who they say they are. This new source, however, requires a much higher level of scepticism and questioning. They’re not providing new light or explanation regarding the situation, they’re purporting to provide confirmation of a rumour. In this case, the rumour is designed to undermine and tarnish – we should be very careful before we start treating it as fact.
Finally, I’ve recently been seeing more posts starting with comments such as “it’s obvious”: whenever someone tells me something is obvious, my first thought is usually “why is it obvious”? The only thing that’s obvious in this hot mess is that BC has chosen to take a new path in his quest for success and is unhappy. Are the two things related? Most probably. Do I know for sure? No. We can speculate on the reasons all we like (which is why your sources are of interest), but when we start treating our interpretations and assumptions as facts, we become every bit as deluded as the nannies who eagerly swallow the propaganda they’re being fed, and start heading in to tin foil hat territory. (I think Robert Anton Wilson touches on this nicely.)
Before you dismiss me as a nanny (sadly, “truthers” are often just as hostile and dismissive of reasonable questioning as “nannies”- which is ironic, but human nature all the same), think on what I’m saying. I’m not throwing the baby out with the bath water, I’m only asking for greater questioning of what we’re being told.
