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Financial Illiteracy of Those Who Mock Conspiracy Theorists
From Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS), a journal from the independent publisher Sage Publications, comes an article that has predictably seen wide distribution on the Internet. It implies that those who believe in globalist conspiracy theories are illogical - even downright nutty. The article is entitled "Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories" and the thesis of the article is that people who believe in conspiracy theories eventually become so immersed in them and so mesmerized that they do not realize they are holding contradictory beliefs.
"Conspiratorialists" become so distrustful of "government" and "authority" that they will impute any and every kind of malevolence to them. Thus it is that people can claim, on the one hand, that Osama bin Laden is "dead" and died years ago, while simultaneously claiming that bin Laden remains alive and that US and Pakistan government authorities are not being truthful about him and his physical state. Of course, I've never run into anyone, who claims that bin Laden is ALIVE. But it's true that here at the Daily Bell we've run articles explaining that bin Laden probably died years ago. See, for instance, "Osama bin Laden is Dead Again?" The SPPS article would likely have you believe this is an outrageous conspiracy theory. But given that FOX news ran a report on bin Laden's death in 2001, and given that Pakistan's former president Benazir Bhutto herself claimed that bin Laden died in the early 2000s (supposedly as the result of an assassination), it doesn't seem so far-fetched to speculate that bin Laden didn't die as the result of a US raid in 2011. But that's almost minor stuff. Articles like this, despite their scientific patina, are deeply illiterate. Why so? Because invariably such articles won't deal with the bedrock financial illiteracy of current economic and political paradigms. Imagine if the world were based on lies. Well, unfortunately, that's the truth. The lies go far beyond "who shot JFK" or whether the US government was directly or indirectly involved in 9/11. When one uses the logical framework of Austrian, free-market analysis to analyze the Way the World Works in the modern age, one inevitably comes to the conclusion that modern society is built around fundamental untruths. The first one is economic: It is the idea that central bankers can efficiently and effectively set the price of money. They cannot. Every time central bankers decide on how much money to print or where short interest rates should be, the decisions are "fixing" prices - and price-fixing never works. Price-fixing distorts economies and causes a wealth shift from those who create it to those who don't and may not know what to do with it. The second lie is that laws and regulations are necessary and that they can save society from "anarchy." In fact, anarchy is only the absence of government. That's the real definition. And absence of government does not necessarily imply "chaos." One can have a perfectly adequate and satisfying society without government, certainly without the kinds of intrusive and murderous governments we've got today. History is full of examples. Just as setting interest rates fixes the price of money, so every law and regulation is a price fix as well, preventing someone from doing something within the context of the marketplace. This also constitutes a wealth transfer. The third lie is that government is essential for purposes of defense and defending its citizens. But a quick survey of modern wars shows a disturbing tendency of governments - especially certain Western governments - to foment the very wars that citizens believe they're being protected from. War is the "health of the state" - the way that those in power consolidate their hold while punishing their enemies using phony pretexts having to do with "treason" and "leaking classified information." Sound familiar? It is what we call the Internet Reformation that has gradually shed light on the fundamental untruths permeating modern society in both the developed and developing world. The Internet, like the Gutenberg Press before it, is a revolutionary device that has allowed people access to information that was hitherto denied or covered up, especially in the 20th century when the power elite's control over society was perhaps at its apex. A conspiracy likely DOES exist. The Internet easily reveals not just facts that illuminate it, but also PATTERNS that show the same command-and-control strategies implemented throughout history, over and over. It is easy, unfortunately, to mock those who believe in so-called "conspiracy theories" because the truth of what has occurred in this weary world is so extreme and shocking that most people simply cannot believe it. What truly horrifies us becomes a target for mockery. It's a defense mechanism. Here's the seeming hard truth: A tiny group of Anglosphere banking families controlling most if not all of the world's major central banks have used the trillions to which they have access in order to foment what can be called a "New World Order." This tiny group of intergenerational plotters and its enablers and associates have apparently built a seamless matrix of control around the entire globe to implement their schemes. They are building world government and are putting in place its building. What is it about the UN, IMF, World Bank, International Criminal Court, World Health Organization and hundreds of others lesser known globalist facilities that escapes those who deny or decry modern "conspiracy theory" that notes these disturbing trends? An entire gamut of globalist entities has been superimposed on the world in the past 75 years. Most recently − only this past week, in fact − the US military held a formal exercise over the skies of Los Angeles using the same black helicopters that conspiracy theorists were mocked for mentioning not a decade ago. But the biggest issue by far - bigger than even the establishment of the facilities of the New World Order - is the fundamental illiteracy of those who choose to support modern society as it is today and as it has evolved over the past 100 years. While human societies have always been based on fairly bizarre rituals, it is safe to say that the current crop of behind-the-scenes leaders have raised statist insanity to a new level. Every part of modern society, from its basic economic building blocks to its liturgical belief in dysfunctional "laws and regulations" to its deep-seated reverence for the manipulated destruction of war, is questionable on a factual basis. The reality of modern society is increasingly pathological - and the ones with the pathology are those who lead the rest of us along using paradigms that are evidently and obviously dishonest and dysfunctional. Articles that mock the looniness of "conspiratorialists" need to deal with the fundamental economic and sociopolitical dishonesty of their own assumptions. I'm not holding my breath.
In 2004, while running FMNN, Wile was among the early adopters of video-Internet news programs. The programs included: This Week in Liberty with Harry Browne and Weekly World Report. In that same year, Wile secured the exclusive Internet broadcast rights for the third-party debates for the presidency of the United States. The debates, covered by the FMNN team of broadcasters including former two-time Libertarian candidate for US president, Harry Browne, were an enormous success, with more than 500,000 people logging on. In 2008, Wile founded a Swiss-based publishing firm and started publishing The Daily Bell. Today, Wile continues to be the publication's Chief Editor. In 2011, Wile launched a non-profit foundation – The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) – and donated the successful Internet publication, along with personal funds, to the Foundation. Wile serves as FAFMT's Executive Director and has established an experienced advisory board consisting of some of today's leading free-market thinkers. FAFMT's stated focus is to promote and support the widespread advancement of laissez-faire economic and social principles commonly associated with the Austrian School of Economics. FAFMT continues to assist with the expansion of The Daily Bell's publishing reach and freedom message. Wile and FAFMT also provide substantial financial assistance to other free-market educational efforts. (For more information on FAFMT beneficiaries, click here.) In 2003, Wile published his first book as Yang, entitled The Liberation of Flockhead. Wile's second book, High Alert, published under his own name in the summer of 2007, has been well received by the hard-money community and alternative media in general. In fact, Congressman Ron Paul says, "High Alert should be read by everyone who wishes to educate themselves about the dangers fiat money poses to American liberty and prosperity. I wish I could get every member of Congress to read this book." High Alert is currently in its third edition and in addition to its native English edition, is available in German and Chinese as well. Wile has assisted with the completion of over a dozen additional free-market oriented books, working as a collaborative editor to several leading free-market thinkers. Anthony Wile invented a term – dominant social theme – to encapsulate the process by which a powerful money elite deceives citizens into giving up their liberties. The process usually invokes the use of fear-based messaging that targets the bottom two levels of Maslow's heirarchy of needs, where the larger percentage of citizenry is trapped. Those are the people that Wile and FAFMT are focused on educating about the importance of accepting personal responsibility for their own lives and not selling their freedoms to elite peddlers of baseless economic and social dreams. Wile also invented the term Internet Reformation, which describes the process by which the Internet, paralleling the impact of the Gutenberg Press before it, is challenging the modern structures erected and under the control of a power elite intent on implementing global governance. Background: Anthony Wile was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1968. Wile graduated from Saint Mary's University (SMU) with a degree in business in 1991. Wile worked in the Canadian investment industry with Scotia McLeod (Bank of Nova Scotia) and Nesbitt Burns (Bank of Montreal). In 1994 Anthony Wile was made a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute, which is a designation awarded to financial services professionals who attain advanced education and experience in the Canadian securities industry. Following his career in the mainstream Canadian securities industry, Wile co-founded a Bahamian-based offshore brokerage firm specializing in private asset management. The firm launched several funds, including a venture capital fund of which Wile was the manager. The firm was sold in 1999. In 2000, Wile experienced a brief role as the CEO of a start-up junior mining company that became the subject of a civil attack by the SEC. Wile and others fought for more than seven years at great personal and financial expense before eventually settling the case without admitting any wrongdoing. The assets of the company in question were subsequently purchased by a New York Stock Exchange listed company and the properties have now produced more gold than was initially suggested. Hundreds of investors lost literally tens of millions in deserved future profits because the SEC accused the company of over-promising a merger that was actually taking place. Perhaps this experience adds to Wile's fervor to expose the power elite and their societal manipulations. Anthony has visited every state in the US and every province and territory in Canada. Additionally, he has lived in several countries in several continents over the past three decades and has visited or done business in more than 60 countries. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada with his wife, Hillary, and their three children, Gabrielle, Jesse and Julian. |
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Anthony Wile is an author, political analyst, financial markets commentator, entrepreneur and founder of several successful free-market oriented Internet sites including Free-Market News Network (FMNN) and The Daily Bell. In founding these sites, Anthony brought a perspective based on more than 20 years of financial and business experience working with growth-oriented companies in a variety of sectors. In aggregate, these free-market educational websites have reached millions of viewers and have remained on the cutting edge of alternative news publishing.