For
the record, this is not an expert's opinion. I am but a simple amateur making
an observation about certain "political" beliefs regarding the
American government that I find common in a few circles. Again, for the record, I do not believe that
the United States government is the perfect apple on the tree either, I know
for a fact the U.S. government has and continues to participate in covert illicit,
corrupt, and horrendous activities, both against its own people and those who
fall under their sway.
The
argument I am trying to make is in regards to the conspiracy theories that surround
the United States government, in particular the ones that follow the simple narrative
that whenever something bad happens the U.S. government is the one behind it. Alternatively,
replace the "U.S. Government" with the term New World Order, Stone Masons,
Globalists, Zionists, etc, and you have the same narrative. For example in
recent news the Sandy Hook school shooting has conjured up many beliefs that
the U.S. was behind the attack in order to come up with an excuse to take
"our" guns, or the most famous one of all 9-11 was carried out by the
government in order to "insert theory here." I personally do not buy
into the notion that the government is secretly behind all the incidents that
occur and that a systematic takeover is occurring. What I do believe in is coincidence,
pure luck of the draw, human emotions, and ultimately economic reasoning. All
these incidents are too complex to narrow down to a single motive such as the
government wanting to take all our guns away or the government blew up the
towers to invade Iraq or set up a military state in the US. By doing that, we
are ignoring the real, complex and very important issues that led to these
horrible incidents
.
For
example in the Sandy Hook case, by wasting time and automatically chalking it
up as a government conspiracy you have officially stopped looking for serious
solutions to the problem. Issues like the lack of mental health care or the simple
failure of mental health care is an issue necessary of exploration. In
addition, issues like the state of the American family in which moms and dads
are raising children in single parent homes that lack proper financial and
emotional resources. Or, exploring issues such as the impact of violence on
young children and the ease of access to violent material. Again, these are all
issues that can be explored, but the conspiracy theorist has already pinned
down the main problem, the government, all other issues are ignored and thus
the problem continues.
The
example with 9-11 again portrays how serious issues are ignored and the
conspiracy thrives. By believing, the government is behind the attacks we are
choosing to ignore the social, political and economic reasoning behind the
attacks. We are brushing aside the years of US domination of Muslim majority
countries in which either we supported regimes (such as Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Egypt, etc) in harassing their citizenry or we ourselves have
personally harassed their citizenry through either sanctions or violent attacks
(Iraq, Libya, Syria, Etc.) That is not the only issue being ignored. Muslim
Majority countries are a hive for Muslim extremism due to a promotion of the conservative
elements of Islam and lack of education. These conditions along with constant
exposure to negative contact with the West breed Islamic terrorist who use
religion to promote their cause and sway the uneducated.
By
using the Government, New World Order, or what have you as the scapegoat every time
an incident occurs you are not doing anything but deluding yourself and
ignoring the real problems that require your attention.
Again
I do not believe our government is perfect, far from it, I know we do some
shady stuff. We have overthrown dictators and installed puppets, we have a drug
war going on but the only thing it does is line pockets. However, I strongly
believe that these incidents are happening due to cause and effect rules,
rather than systematic governments take over.
