Conspiracy Theories, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking

  “ Democracy is the land of plenty dreamt of by unscrupulous financiers ,” Webster quotes Sorel. This is the kind of comment where we must suspect that Webster either does not understand context is ignoring it because her audience won’t care. At this point in our journey, it should be apparent that Webster’s biggest crime is in committing the informal fallacy of cherry picking. She’s looking for out-of-context soundbites that she can then twist. We can see this from her footnotes where in successive citations she jumps from pg. 320 to 321 (ok, good), then to 186, 233, 112, 101, 236, and then 234.   Sorel, Georges Sorel, is being accused of harboring anti-democracy sentiments in his support of Socialism. Sorel thinks democracy is bad because of the corruption so we should assent to whatever it is that she wants us to think his solution is: probably some kind of dictatorship. We could however do a page hop citation for nearly any book to prove any point, this is why cherry pi...

  The problem with conspiracy theories like Webster’s is that the looming danger is always just around the corner. It’s coming, and probably tomorrow; so be prepared but also be afraid. During 2020, conspiracy theorists liked to claim that the Summer of Protests was evidence of the conspiracy. It was Soros funded antifa-BLM designed to disrupt society and cause a total collapse of the government. The thing you have to ignore is that none of the conspiracy theorists predicted it, it was always a post-hoc prediction. Take some vague statement about unrest the theorist made several years ago and then pretend that it links up to that Summer. Webster makes the mistake of attempting an actual prediction. She describes “ the Great Day of Revolution.” She describes cutting the telephone/telegraph wires, smashing stores, looting, burning, and sabotaging the railways. This will prompt police and military to respond with the hope that some of them will join the revolution. Then the capital ...

  The working people of the world are vastly outclassed in conflicts by the powers that be. In US history we can look at the Coal Wars, when the US military was used to protect the interests of coal companies by literally bombing the striking miners with planes. The US diverted military resources fighting World War I to attack its own citizens. Open conflict is inadvisable in these cases. The solution to fighting for the rights of the common person is the general strike. As Webster describes it, this is a tool of the anarchist—well, one of the tools. She claims that Mermeix defines three types of general strike: “ 1) the corporative general strike of the workers, 2) the Parliamentary general strike of the Socialists, and 3) the Revolutionary General strike of the Syndicalist leaders. ” She’s going to define each of them and I assume why they are all the tool of the Illuminati/Jews. For the corporative strike, she seems to be in support, writing that it was the only method that ...