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Conspiracy Theories, Sensemaking, and the Rise of the Mono-Narrative
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Conspiracy Theories, Sensemaking, and the Rise of the Mono-Narrative

Covid19-- A sales pitch with radical consequences.
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Our societies are split, divided. People rage wars against each other, but mostly in their own hearts

The phenomenon of conspiracy theories entered our lifes in 2020. Together with massive censorship, cancel culture, and blatant mass propaganda.

We live in times of the loss of trust in democracy and our leaders, who are showing their true despotic faces. Even a mouth cap can’t hide their attitude of bending over to their feudal big tech, big pharma and big finance overlords.

It’s fair to say, in my humble opinion, that many forces are conspiring against human dignity, free thought, equality, and our core human rights.

Who is conspiring against who?

When we have a quick peek in history, many conspiracy theories later turned out to be true, or at least there was a kernel of truth in them. For example, the CIA using LSD in project MK-ULTRA to study behavior modification on volunteers. Or what about the US Government secretly stealing body parts from deceased people in project sunshine, to do nuclear tests on them?

Governments telling me that their truth and narrative is the only one out there and others should be censored is a huge red flag for me.

What is going on?

How to deal with this violent mono narrative and the massive groups think that’s a result of it. How to still make sense of the world, and with whom?

How to keep sane in this war for your mind.

Conspiracy theories, narratives, and demoralization

What I see happening around me in the COVID crisis, is Governments and privately funded organizations doing a humongous effort to try to convince people of one specific storyline, one narrative so to speak.

It’s a sales pitch with radical consequences.

People with critical questions, alternative views and opinions are dismissed as conspiracy theorists, publicly shamed, canceled, or otherwise censored. Included are Nobel price winners, the inventor of RNA vaccines, numerous Doctors and Professors of high esteem, famous writers, whistleblowers working for big pharma . In other words, many authorities in their field.

The argument is that in times of a pandemic, one centralized decision should be followed for our own safety. This is the front door story while at the backdoor another agenda is played out. In plain sight.

Through fear, people these days look like rabbits frozen in the strong lights of cars that are about to run them over.

It’s the effect of mass demoralization. Many have simply given up after 2 years. You can tell them literally everything, invent new variants every week, call these Daisy, or Butterfly or Covy. People won’t mind. They will just follow what you tell them to do.

Millions have become assets of the cult.

In history, terrible atrocities have taken place from the exact same mechanism, and still we don’t seem able to collectively wake up, isolate the bad actors, and quite literally come to our senses and stop this clowns world.

Can we stop this B-Movie?

Spoiler Alert: The bad actor is a system.

Our crony predatory capitalist game-A. It has led us into the caring arms of big tech nation states dictating governments in their best perverse interest.

Really, for me, this pandemic B-movie has turned into a cheap marketing trick for big pharma to sell their latest anti- covid product line. Governments have turned into sleek salesmen. But when you don’t buy into their story, you get the gun of social segregation pushed against your head.

They’ve quite literally became drug criminals. Our leaders.

In the background, something much bigger is going on, The subtle reshaping of our society. The introduction of the ideology of health. Violent steps within a very arrogant transparent global power grab. Create the problem, come with the solution on a microscale, and tell your mates at Big Media to never let the fear train stop.

New Variant. New Products.

What about Covid vaccine toothpaste? I mean, when you can sell pills instead of Vaccines, you can sell literally anything? Marketplace science will test it in a week. It’s all safe folks.

And believe it or not, I just made this toothpaste shit up, Googled it, and bang… Palmolive is also cashing in on Covid with promising research for oral anti covid clinical care.

Fear definitely sells.

OK, I will stop my rand here. Who knows what I say is true? To be honest, I don’t care. I cry if I wan’t to.

The birth of conspiracy

People like to be heard, even when they might be wrong. A cornerstone of any democracy is posing a thesis, weighing one argument against another, letting everybody speak, and coming to a consensus about a broadly supported truth. If this consensus can’t be reached, we vote. In Switzerland, people can start a referendum when they don’t agree about something. I mean, back in the old days.

We learn from each other arguments to the extent we can remain open to them.

When this core process and even our right to free speech is cornered, people will automatically fill this ‘trust gap’, with their own best guess. Since the trust is broken, some level of paranoia will creep in.

What you read above, my rand, is my best guess combined with 2 years of endless podcast listening, reading, observing, thinking and making sense.

I admit that some paranoia is probably there. But hey, some healthy paranoia keeps the jab away.

Truth finding and sense-making go hand in hand

You need to give meaning to your life, else you’ll die. It’s that simple. We mainly do sensemaking for our survival. When you have explained the world around you in reasonable terms, it’s way easier for you to navigate life, to make the right choices.

\When you learned the lion might eat you, you’re not gonna walk towards the lion, but away from it.

We’ve outsourced meaning-giving and sense-making to external authorities for most of our history. That’s why it’s so difficult for baby boomers, that actually had a healthy relationship with their trusted Governments for most of their adult life, to see through the lies, toxic games, and massive power abuse.

After mainstream media has proven to be mainly propaganda machines for the one narrative, and governments are becoming less and less transparent by the day, there’s only one resource left to turn to.

Your own truth.

What is being exposed?

In the case of COVID, scientific information that became available after the initial shock and awe period has tried to be exposed. From this peer reviewed data, it’s clear its not a pandemic. Still, people have turned into rabbits looking into headlights, frozen.

Tell them about Ivermectin. Supported by doctors all over the world after more information about the nature of the virus became available. Yet condemned in media channels and framed as a horse dewormer. And thus turned aside by millions on the planet as conspiracy theory.

When governments and MSM still block this information and doctors get torn their tongues out digitally, it’s only natural that people get even more suspicious.

Why not execute truthful and transparent research on the matter and be happy we’ve potentially found a cheap and widely available treat?

Why even bother. Discussion about Ivermectine, about the use of mouth caps or the Vaccine ( that isn’t a Vaccine), is all within the realm of the main narrative, and thus a waste of time.

Don’t waste your time staying within the main narrative

Dictatorships need enemies. Calling out a clear anti-vaxx enemy, the ingroup will feel even safer, more understood, and they get even more religious about the effectiveness of the vaccine. The more religious and Twitter Fascist they become, the more status they get inside the clan.

Yes, they are definitely on the right side of this holy war on health. A self-righteousness beyond any doubt. And beyond any self-reflection too. But why would you, when you feel the power of the cult pushing you beyond moral and ethical safe grounds?

It’s like the 2 minutes of hate in Orwells 1984. (Watch the clip and feel into today’s reality)

A mechanism where cult members, AKA the complete population except for the plebs, shout as loud as possible to the invisible enemy Goldstein, while nobody really feels it. Not joining is dangerous. Every move and facial expression is monitored by Big Brother.

The 2 minutes of hate in 1984 has turned into 24/7 toxic polarized threads on social media in 2021.

The jab has become King in the land of the frozen rabbits. In the new ideology of health, the vaccine has become a religion.

Refusing millions of ‘Covid deniers’ and ‘Vaccine hesitants’ the ability to take part in social life, as from February 2022 in Austria,( but obviously more countries must follow suit) has turned into the 21st-century global religious war.

Will it come this far?

This depends on how fast the truth will come surfacing and this depends on what speed people wake the fuck up realizing that a totalitarian dystopian nightmare is way more frightening than a virus less lethal than the flu.

My truth versus your truth, or the truth

I realize the above is my truth, all that I’ve written. It must be biased somehow, even when I’m trying to stay neutral for the sake of the article. The feeling of injustice I just feel around me is bigger than a need to back up every statement with a decent fact check.

I just want to be heard, like anybody else.

I am not a scientist, but I sure have my critical thinking and a lot of things feel smelly, to say the least. While writing this and making podcasts, I always realize I have this bias. Yes, I can and will be blinded by my own truth, dismissing other opinions to feel safe in my in-group.

I do my best to apply the 5 steps for sensemaking I talked about in my last podcast. Especially rule Omega, staying open to 5% of signal in 95% of noise. And next to this remaining immune for the highly toxic information ecology

In today’s intoxicated social media landscape, it’s almost impossible to stay open, stay vulnerable, and find that precious 5% of signal.

You need enough immunity for that information wasteland.

My immunity training is through organizing Men’s circles in Ibiza and making sense almost every day with close friends around me, and on this platform. I love it and encourage you to give any comment, with respect and openness.

I realize the world has become too complicated for my mind to grasp. We need to come together in circles, let collective intelligence guide us.

The way forward for the coming years

Fighting the frozen rabbit groups think is a losing game. And not necessary. I don’t feel we need to fight anything.

To remain sane with your own thinking is already a great achievement these days. It makes you immune to the real virus.

This reminds me of the scene in The matrix where Neo has to deal with dozens of Mr. Smiths that come from everywhere, morphing from ordinary bypassers in this unified enemy.

For me, that image is the symbol of being confronted with assets of the cult. They repeat insitently the main narrative from a state of mass hypnosis, in a violent, self righteous and semi-religious way.

The amount of toxicity, gas lighting and Stockholm syndrome altogether, in this phase, feels just too strong and violent sometimes. I believe many have found a safe harbour with peers while staying low and close to nature.

Still, strengthening the muscle of sensemaking with friends is essential, so that at the end, this practice can scale when time is ready.

I strongly believe in creating the new instead of blaming the old. People are doing this all over the planet. Its called society 4.0 in the Netherlands

All Bottom up and local. The keywords for our coming systemic renaissance.

The truth will persevere, trust will re-appear — it’s up to every single one of us.

Lucien Lecarme

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