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Was in a Trader Joe’s just now and heard an employee ranting to his coworkers about bill gates, mosquitos with genetic mutations, vaccines etc… His coworkers were listening intently. Then I had this moment of clarity like who does this serve? Is it serving the Trader Joe’s employees? Is it bettering their lives to be tapped into this firehose of information (true, false or otherwise). How can it be? They’re working in a Trader Joe’s for $20 an hour. Then as I walked to the checkout counter I wondered to myself is this the new opiate of the masses? Approved conspiracies manufactured for wide public consumption while the real ones are swept out of view. Giving the public the illusion that they have secret esoteric knowledge of major events that are set to transpire imminently… yet somehow never do. America’s past time used to be baseball and now it’s conspiracy theories. That has to be by design right? Right?! Anyway then I remembered I forgot to get ground beef so I went back to grab it. $5.49 a lb, pretty good deal.

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> Giving the public the illusion that they have secret esoteric knowledge of major events that are set to transpire imminently… yet somehow never do. Those "conspiracies" all happened. I don't understand what you're referring to. You think the death jabs were good? I don't get it.
OMG I literally woke up while working at Trader Joe’s. ❤️ Not because of my co-workers; I would listen to conspiracy podcasts while stocking shelves during 4 am shifts. In hindsight, there was this one guy that gave me bread crumbs. Everything about him makes sense now. 🙃 Those were some of my favorite times, though I gradually grew more depressed. Finally, when I refused to wear a mask in 2020 after months on forced leave, they fired me. 😷 Now I’m married with two kids, live on acreage (an hour drive to the nearest Trader Joe’s) and a couple businesses in the tech freedom space. What a wild ride it’s been 🎢
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I have a friend who, every time we hang out, unloads a new batch of conspiracies that never (very rarely) actually materialize. They’re also big on bragging about not watching TV, yet spend hours scrolling Twitter, letting the algorithm serve them their next obsession. They constantly pepper me with screenshots of articles, and videos tied to whatever rabbit hole they’re down this week. Honestly, I’m convinced conspiracies have become the Western male's favorite form of reality TV.
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My friend is deep into the whole Q thing. His go-to phrase is, “Sit back and watch the show.” From where I’m standing, the Q movement seems like a psychological trick, where it gives people the rush of feeling like they’ve uncovered secret knowledge, but then neutralizes them by convincing them that everything is unfolding according to plan, so they shouldn’t act, but just “watch.” They do share a ton of memes, though, so... there’s that?
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Instead of mocking your friend from here you can leverage his curiosity by introducing him to the Corbett Report. James Corbett criticizes the "Q movement" as well and ofcourse he is not pro-Trump or whatever. His YouTube channel was banned, until recently, so his material is widely available. Introductory level of crypto or other solutions are there as well.
I realized I was becoming this type of person as I began to wake up. It’s tough not to share with others because of the urge to help people you care about. But just as people get Bitcoin when they’re meant to, so do they wake up to Truth when they’re meant to. So I’ve realized it’s best to listen to others much more than rant.
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Using mosquitoes to vaccinate people/wild animals is not a conspiracy. The word conspiracy means "a secret agreement between 2 or more people to do something illegal/immoral If it's not a secret it's not a conspiracy Using mosquitoes to vaccinate is not a secret.
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Understand pls that Bill Gates is a figure presented as saint (it was actually depicted like that in kids cartoons btw) of Technology, Innovation, Capitalism and even Health. Questioning his motives publicly is serving the causes (well according to what you tell us) you support as well. Everybody offers what his/her capacity can handle. You can talk about "elevated stuff", let other talk about things they can comprehend.
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I ve really tried a lot of times to talk to people with a low level of education about the money system, and how evolved like that today. And there is no best place to do that except from the working environment. Why? Because when people hang out they want to have a nice time! They don't like being with someone telling them about the "gold standard" and the World War I. Most of them can't wrap their heads around the global debt, and who owns to whom money and how this is even possible. Trying to explain all that, most of them looked at me like an UFO. Talking about "ordinary conspiracies" 😂 is the introductory level of the much needed distrust of the "system". People understand very well the concept of someone ruining the lives of other people, just to gain money.
Or just plain survival instincts? My mom got a heart attack from the jabs, if it wasn’t for finding CDS she would probably be dead now. Two friends died soon after the jab in turbo cancer, leaving kids behind. Like 4 of my moms neighbors all died within less than a year after 2022, all in ”cancer”… But I’m sure that’s just conspiracies…
Or, It's an unstoppable force that comes with the Information Age. All of human history, information was forced fed by the state to the public in a centralised way through their monopolised media and education system. If we consider mass adoption of the internet around 2010, we are now just about 15 years into a new era where the monopoly of the state is broken and we can actually communicate with each other at scale. Obviously they try to censor, but it seems not very effective. 'Coincidently' the end of the state monopoly on info came with a massive increase in popularity of 'conspiracy theories' and more importantly the confirmation of many (almost all). The reason why the $20 wage earners get to them first is that they are often lower educated, so they spend less time being indoctrinated by the state education monopoly, which makes it easier to change their worldview without creating too much emotional damage. The good news is that #Nostr will cause the final blow to their monopoly on information, #bitcoin will destroy their monopoly on money, and even their monopoly on violence (the lifeblood of the state) will highly deminish through drone warfare and 3D printed guns. The state won't survive the Information Age, UNLESS you bring a bunch of m0r0ns into power who upgrade it quickly with AI (DOGE, Stargate, Palentir) and get the population in a digital concentration camp before they get rid of their statist spell. This is the battle humanity is in. Or is this a CoNsPeRaCy ThEoRy too? 😉😉😉
Do you believe in aliens 👽 ?? Average Joes are now aware they were deceived by the trusted institutions with the covid theatre. Years after, they found themselves in a weak position making them more open to ‘alternative’ ideas … and they’re just catching up. I used to ask the aliens question to known how someone is open or not to non-mainstream ideas. So, beyond the mosquitoes or aliens, is a good thing average Joe is now questioning the narratives not just following them.
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Enough people misunderstood this post that I thought I’d clarify further. A couple points. 1. I’m aware the mosquito thing is real. 2. I’m not condescending to the people that work at the grocery store. The employees aren’t the problem. Honest people, doing honest work, locked into a world where they’re being fed a firehose of anxiety-inducing “esoteric knowledge” that they can’t act on in any meaningful way. That was the moment that hit me: Who does this actually serve? Because it’s not serving them. A person making $20 an hour doesn’t have the structural power to stop Bill Gates, halt bioengineered mosquitoes, or dismantle the pharmaceutical industry. So why is this the information they’re flooded with? It seems like a lot of the information that hits our screens is being handed out like candy. Not to awaken people, but to distract them. To simulate power and insight without providing any. It gives the illusion of control like “I know what’s going on” while keeping everyone emotionally revved up and politically paralyzed. That’s what I meant by “the new opiate of the masses.” It’s not about them. It’s about what they’re being sold. And yeah, the ground beef was still $5.49 a pound. Which is a pretty good deal View quoted note →
Possible, but also... people who are checking out of the system and who are into conspiricies might be more likely to have lower responsibility jobs. Frees their mind to think about the world rather than someone renting space in their brain. Think crazy tinfoil hat homeless man And yes, I work at Trader Joe's