Definite Leftist / Progressive preaching open-mindedness on issue of "conspiracy theory"
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More sophisticated "Get in front of the story?" than CBS?
quoting Charles Eisenstein regarding the role of so-called conspiracy theories within the phase shift, the paradigm shifting world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3LDEN5TLaQ
Video interview The Conspiracy "Myth", Charles Eisenstein,
36:36 minutes duration, May 25, 2020
minute 05:13
"Mostly "conspiracy theory" is a term of derision. Even in this conversation I'm noticing what tone of voice do I adopt when I said, 'The idea that a group of evil puppet masters are pulling the strings and are actually in control of the world…' Did I say that with a neutral tone or did I say that with a derisive tone? If I say it with a derisive tone, I am joining the playground bullies and gaining acceptance by displaying the correct attitude of the in-group."
minute 07:38
"I think that the ideal of impartiality is actually impossible. […] Nobody even agrees on what the solid ground is. There’s no consensus about what constitutes legitimate fact and where legitimate facts are to be sourced from. As long as we recognize that then at least we have the potential to be aware of our biases. And even that is a process of progressive uncovering (discovery) and not an ideal we can ever reach."
minute 11:21
"The "conspiracy myth" comes from a very authentic, accurate perception that our institutions have betrayed us, that they're not serving their declared interests, that they have a secret agenda, that they are the puppets of something. Personally, I don't think that they are the puppets of a group of evil conspirators. I think it's more accurate to say that they're the puppets of a paradigm, of a mythology, of a set of interests of a system, of an economic system, of an ideology of control."
minute 14:09
"You'll never solve the problem by removing the bad actors."
minute 15:27
"Often that new world view is actually the old worldview in coded form, it's just a different form of the same thing. Another stage of the initiation is you go from the default consensus reality to a conspiracy theory or a cult. It could be anything that's the receiving room for people who have left the old story. Then you see that's not working either, that it has some of the same limitations. And so you go to another and another one. That process is a series of stepping stones into the unknown, into the place of being comfortable with uncertainty and looking at the parts of you that you've kept at bay by offering them certainty. What comes up when you allow yourself to be in uncertainty, when you allow yourself not to know? That requires undoing some pretty deep programming in our school system for example you're rewarded for knowing, you're rewarded for producing the correct answer. Not knowing is a new habit. And we have an entire scientific ideology that says that that humanity is converging closer and closer to the literal objective truth, that we are approaching "a theory of everything of the universe", and a technological system that says once we order and fix a number to each object in the world and each person in the world, we convert everything into data, then we will be able to rationally and optimally manage this world. This prejudice toward knowing and the punishments we’ve received for not knowing constitute a deep programming that really takes some courage and some community to undo, to be okay with 'maybe nobody knows, and it's okay not to know for a while.' "
minute 19:15
"With very, very good reason over the last few decades people have been in growing distrust of the elites and of their arrogance."
minute 23:09
"The concept of evil was originally associated with chaos and the wild. There are ancient Sumerian inscriptions to this effect. The good king goes out and conquers the barbarians, drains the wetlands, cuts down the forests, slays the wild beasts, who became like the wolf the big, bad wolf. They are evil and the sheep is good. The weeds are evil, the corn is good, the barbarians are evil, the civilized people are good. That’s where evil came from as a concept. It leads to an ideology of progress through domination, because we're always good, and they’re evil. It mutates into conspiracy theory, but in my view that's not actually a very fundamental revolution. It’s still exploring the territory of separation, of control. And to molt beyond that you have to go through the territory of unknowing."