Towards a Rational Conspiracy Theory

A rather circumscribed microcosmic example one can examine is the case of Abigail Shrier, who wrote the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.  While it is ironic that Shrier as a regular contributing journalist to the Wall Street Journal and other Mainstream venues, comes out of the Mainstream milieu (for those who have been tuning in, the Mainstream is dominated and steered by the Left), it is ironic also that the various forms of Leftist cancel culture assaults on her & her book have likely helped her book sales and her fame to spread her message, rather than hurt her as they intended

Of course, a Rational Conspiracy Theory wouldn't make sense if you summarily dismiss the possibility of conspiracies in general (or at all). At any rate, Rational Conspiracy Theory proceeds on the assumption that there is a conspiracy, but hasn't yet palpated its contours reasonably.

So, assuming there's a Leftist/Communist conspiracy afoot, it's reasonable to assume the cancel culture phenomenon would be a major weapon in their arsenal, and Abigail Shrier, being an important figure challenging a major Leftist trope, would logically be a figure the conspirators would want to cancel.

The fact then that Abigail Shrier has been helped rather than hurt by the cancel culture attempts against her work means either that the conspirators are inept, or that there is no conspiracy there -- or it means that there are limitations on the ability of the conspirators to succeed in their agenda.   

What are these limitations?  Why do they exist?  And how do the conspirators interact with the non-conspiratorial parts of the sociopolitical ocean in which conspirators and non-conspirators alike swim?  These are fundamental questions a Rational Conspiracy Theory explores.

As usual, important questions raise further questions, such as:  Are the non-conspiratorial elements of the one common world in which we all live -- conspirators and non-conspirators alike -- more numerous and more powerful than the conspiratorial elements?  Or are they roughly equal in number and power?  Or are the conspiratorial elements dominant? (This last option seems to be one hallmark of the irrational conspiracy theory.)

More to come...

Still hanging on by my fingernails

 

Back on September 14 of 2020, I began a post this way:

Holy Moly, I haven't posted anything in nearly 2 months!  This Corona Madness messes with your sense of time (not to mention with your life).

Well now, on the morning of January 11, I see I haven't posted anything since October 19.  That goes well beyond a Holy Moly, almost to a Moliest of Molies.

That September posting, by the by, also alludes to a running theme that had increasingly preoccupied me over the course of 2020, and reached a nerve-rattling crescendo with the protracted trauma of the Presidential Election and its surreal, Orwellianly Kafkaesque aftermath -- receiving an added jolt on January 6 -- from which the nation reels and staggers to this day toward an uncertain future.  The running theme of which I speak has become clarified in my mind as the ongoing philosophical quest to develop a rational conspiracy theory.  More about that (and I've taken various stabs at it here on this blog) anon.

Perhaps the most searingly acute and stunningly concrete representation of that theme involves the interview Mara Zack gave on America Can We Talk, a YouTube channel hosted by Debbie Georgatos, on January 6.  That video has been consistently taken down by YouTube -- the latest instance being in the wee hours of last night as I write.  I had the video in hand late last night, and this morning when I went to retrieve it, it was gone, even though other videos by Debbie Georgatos are still on her YouTube page, many of them "far right" analyses of the Election etc.  If the reader looks at her YouTube page, they will see videos dated Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, but nothing for the 6th.  Luckily, a website has preserved the audio of that interview.

The peculiar -- to the point of being eerie -- thing is that nobody, not even Trump supporters, are talking about Maria Zack's astounding claim.  I worry about her safety, since I have not heard from her since January 6.