exactly how prone i am to symbolism, deeper meaning or perhaps even precedent setting is a subject of quite limited interest, i would suggest. for anyone all that interested, well, determine such as you will, although i suppose there is a clue in the name of this blog, look you see. yet i do wonder exactly what the precedent, meaning or what have you is for the first in person, actual "conversation" i had with someone on the first day of the second month of this year (2025, to get obligatory bracket use in).
it was, indeed (and very much so), a sunday. as would be usual i was off on a train to see my (known) children. strangely the trains have been running as intended of late, of which i am certain that the fact network rail staff are being made to take them to verk is entirely (purely) co-incidental. moving on, so to speak, and as i stood on the platform, waiting for the train, a gentleman approached me. no. not in the way, it turned out, with the ambitions or ideas with which my chum Spiros approaches men, and besides which we were absolutely nowhere near a bathroom.
considering how i am (most decidedly) not celebrated for my sartorial eloquence it would be most unbecoming of moi to comment on the appearance of others. that said, he did have a certain disheveled, potentially unhinged style on the go. a look which was complemented, completed or otherwise rounded off by the presence of his dog, resplendent with a leash that was rope. he handed me a card and began an unsolicited conversation. maybe more of a soliloquy.
for some reason, and i forget how he addressed me but it was in a complimentary (bordering on flattering) way, he felt compelled if not obliged to speak to me of the dangers of various (likely all) vaccinations being offered, of how (sadly) a relative had passed just over two weeks after being given one of them, and of how the earth is actually flat. the card references most of these things, along with how certain terms are clearly (according to he and the card) anagrams of the real truth, along with some rudimentary numerology interpretation. quite a formidable amount of what one would call conspiracy theories are captured on this regular size business card. i would rather, mostly, call them theories or just straightforward ideas, for one can never tell if it is (as point of fact) a conspiracy.
why me, i wonder. yes, for all i know he went off on a train somewhere and approached a great many other people, but at the platform it was me and me alone he decided needed (if not wished) to hear what he had to say, approaching no others. likely, or possible, that there is some truth to what my chum Steve said when i met Piers Corbyn. he had, for those not caring to click the link planted there, no idea who(m) or what a Piers Corbyn was, and took as a given he was "just the standard type of oddball" he believes i am quite the natural magnet for.
being honest i have a level of something or other that circles around respect and admiration for chaps like this. to have a level of belief, or conviction, to go out and approach people with their theories, ideas or what have you, knowing full well that they may (and probably will) at times get some angry, or even quite cross, reactions off of some. a thing with "freedom of speech" many forget is that it does indeed have a price, with the price being everyone has it or no one does, and that you have to be prepared to accept there are going to be consequences for what you say. some, in particular those social justice keyboard warriors of the internet, believe they can say whatever about who(m)ever, but they absolutely should not be taken to task or attacked themselves for doing so.
as for "conspiracy theories", or just theories, notions or ideas, there's always been a pretty basic test i run them by. essentially for all the effort, resources and cost it would take to "pull off" most (if not all) of these conspiracy theories, someone somewhere would need to stand to amass (or accumulate) vast power and money from their success, for they are the only reasons that would make doing them worthwhile.
some examples? certainly. whereas i am quite prepared to accept it was all real, that it happened and can be proven, the "moon landings were a hoax" theory is indeed oddly plausible. the reason would be why would America do such, and it's fairly simple - to "trick" the Soviet Union and, to a lesser extent at the time, the emerging China, into wasting vast amounts of resources to compete. money spent on landing on a docile rock in the sky is not money spent on missiles or similar. up to now absolutely no one has explained to me how anyone could possibly gain a single thing from convincing billions that the planet on which we dwell is a different shape.
vaccinations, since they are the cause of most conspiracy theories in this wonderful century? again, if they wished to either control or just straightforward eliminate (as in kill) certain people on the planet i would imagine there are much simpler and potentially more efficient ways to do such. i do, however, appreciate the creativity on display when some come up with theories about it all.
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