Scholé news June 2020

Since the outbreak of the corona crisis, the term CONSPIRACY THEORY has been booming.

We know thanks to WikiLeaks how it became a term of abuse: after the murder of John F. Kennedy in 1963, the CIA deliberately introduced this term into public debate. It was meant to ridicule awkward questioners as soon as they dared to voice doubts about the official version of events.

The secret service’s motives are easy to understand in view of the many inconsistencies surrounding the fatal shots at the American president! (The shots came from different directions, yet are said to have been fired by a lone gunman. He was arrested by the police immediately, but was shot dead only 2 days later on the way to another prison. There are no records of the eight-hour interrogation of the suspect.)

A conspiracy always takes place in secret. Conspirators try by every means to keep their plans secret, to leave as few traces as possible and to have no witnesses. Logically, outsiders can therefore only put forward theories about a conspiracy. The term conspiracy theory is thus entirely correct. The opinion-makers, however, have succeeded in turning it into a dangerous weapon: if the media want to destroy someone, all they have to do is call them a conspiracy theorist. Even if that person was a widely recognised expert only the day before, their reputation and career are ruined at a stroke.

How does this trick work?

First of all, 2 quite different forms of conspiracy must be distinguished. First, the conspiracy from BELOW, in which private individuals secretly join forces, at their own expense and very often at the risk of their lives, to overthrow a tyrant who cannot be got rid of by legal means. A well-known example is the plot of 20 July 1944, a failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler that has gone down in the history books. The conspirators were all executed at the time; today they are celebrated as heroes of the resistance against Nazi terror.

There is little or no publicity, on the other hand, for the second variant, namely conspiracies from ABOVE, in which state secret services plan operations at the taxpayers’ expense that the population must not find out about, because they serve quite different interests and can cost countless innocent people their lives. Whatever leaks out about such conspiracies from above is immediately classified as fake news. False flag operations also fall into this category: attacks planned and carried out by secret services are pinned on the respective enemy with the help of the media in order to put a peaceful population in the mood for war. A prime example is the second Iraq war, which, like many other wars before and after it, was set off by a lie devised by conspirators loyal to the state and spread by media loyal to the state.

The Swiss historian and peace researcher Daniele Ganser, quite correctly described by Wikipedia and the so-called mainstream media as a conspiracy theorist and do-gooder, has exposed some of these lies. By examining the official accounts for their truthfulness and searching the archives for answers to questions left open or never asked, he has brought explosive findings to light – and thereby put his academic reputation and career at stake. How is it that in democratic Switzerland two universities dismissed a highly respected academic just because he asked awkward questions about 9/11? How is it that I cannot even discuss Ganser’s talks and books with so many politically interested democrats, because on principle they do not engage with the views of a conspiracy theorist and do-gooder? Why?

The psychologist Alice Miller (1923–2010) investigated why adults voluntarily give up self-determination and submit to authorities, even when they are deceived and exploited by them. In a book with the telling title “Du sollst nicht merken” (Thou Shalt Not Be Aware), she explains very vividly how the mechanism arises that leads people to repress traumatic experiences as far as possible: a child who is completely dependent on its parents must not admit its anger to itself when it is neglected by its mother or raped by its own father. It is prepared to maintain its love for its parents at any price in order to secure its own survival. So the child suppresses its needs, hides its true feelings, even from itself, and trains itself in behaviours with which it can “get by” more or less unscathed: putting up with as much or as little closeness and attention as Mum and Dad want, so that I belong. Moving only as much as my surroundings allow. Keeping my mouth shut so as not to cause offence. Not asking stupid questions. Rather doing and not doing what the others want. Bowing to those above, kicking those below. Getting ill when I can’t stand it any more.

Patterns acquired in childhood cannot simply be cast off. As long as a person has not consciously transformed them, they remain effective – at school, among friends, in relationships, at work – and the deeper they have been repressed into the unconscious, the stronger they are. Conversely, of course, this means that even among the “evil” adults – whether parents, teachers, bosses or politicians – very few do evil deliberately. Most perpetrators are themselves victims of their equally traumatised parents, without being allowed to notice it. For the unconscious mechanism uncovered by Alice Miller has been passed on from one generation to the next for thousands of years. In their own interest, those in power have always cultivated this mechanism, instinctively or consciously, because it forms the actual basis of their rule: as long as upbringing is based on pressure and coercion, it guarantees the preservation of hierarchical structures. Fear makes people compliant. That is why children are not allowed to decide for themselves what they want to learn, when, with whom and in what way. That is why anyone who will not be forbidden to think independently and who openly calls conspiracies from above by their name is cast out of the community.

Of course, among conspiracy theorists there are not only high-minded seekers of truth, but also dubious troublemakers, fanatics and fact-twisters planted by the secret services, whose task is to cast all critics in the worst possible light. All these people taken together, however, are incomparably less dangerous than a control-obsessed elite of power and money that no longer has to engage with factual criticism at all, but high-handedly imposes measures whose effects on the world’s population are incalculable.

That is why I am very grateful that among virologists, doctors and biologists, too, there are fearless do-gooders who consider a conspiracy from above possible and who will not be silenced despite all threats and sanctions. Anyone who still has access to their intuition can quite easily tell such do-gooders apart from well-paid experts who obligingly spread fear and panic. They try to calm people down. They do not advertise tests, medicines, vaccines or masks. They state the sources of the facts and statistics they talk about. They cite comparative figures so that laypeople, too, can reasonably assess the overall situation. They make an effort to explain complicated matters, such as how RNA vaccines work and what their consequences are, in a way everyone can understand. They appeal to their listeners’ common sense when it comes to the question of whether so-called protective measures are appropriate. They would be ready at any time to face a public discussion with experts close to the government. So far, however, they have not been invited to do so, but have been defamed across the board as conspiracy theorists…

I very much hope that the current global crisis will help more people than before to give up the strategy of the 3 monkeys – hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing – that they practised so early in life, without setting a new spiral of violence in motion. What does it take? Above all, the courage to face the truth, I believe. On the internet, anyone can inform themselves comprehensively. Numerous authors and therapists have made it their life’s task to resolve childhood traumas. Once I have understood how unconscious violence against children breeds violence again and again, I can develop the ability to see ALSO the hurt, neglected child even in the most megalomaniac billionaire or the most corrupt politician. Then I will succeed in facing such people without fear, and in working without hatred and without vengefulness for a world of tomorrow that is finally peaceful and child-friendly.

Let yourselves be encouraged to do so!

Alexandra

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