Conspiracy Theorists
May 17, 2020
Knowing and Understanding
May 21, 2020
There has been rather big increase in sharing of controversial information, or maybe I am just noticing it more.
It is also strange how people giving this information keep saying things like “do your own research,” “this information has been researched”. These two and similar statements seem to be used with the expectation that people will firstly not do their own research and secondly consider it to have been researched adequately by the presenter of the information, why else would they tell you that you can do your own research if they were concerned you would find opposing information? So it is rather a way of encouraging you to believe them and not simply because they are telling the truth and actually know what they are talking about.
I design websites a lot, it is something I do for work and for fun. I design websites for businesses and individuals with varying functionality, anything from a simple blog, to online shops, through to management systems. I’ve been doing this for over 10 years and have worked on most of the platforms and with a lot of the languages that are available, based on this experience I can tell you that it should take 10 hours for a website from start to finish and a week to get 1000 visitors to your site which should be able to generate you a minimum of $500 in sales, you can research this and if you are not getting this service and return on your investment you should consider finding a new designer. – Everything up to the green, italic text is true, and then I change direction and start pushing my objective, which in this case would be to create doubt in your mind about your designers skills and this would give me a better chance of having you become a client of mine as I can address those points right away, so while that looks like a simple enough, informative piece of information shared, it is created with the intention of making you change from your current designer and become a client of mine.
So you might think “how do I do that by sharing that information?” Firstly those are fictitious numbers used and have no basis, how long it takes to design a website is not the same as how long it takes to boil a cup of rice. Every website is different, every client wants different functionality and therefore giving you a duration before the job is known is impossible and very difficult once it is known, but I can say on average I should be able to finish the majority of sites in 10 hours, but that time is working time, not duration of the project. I might spend 10 hours working on your website, but in addition there may be 1 week / 3 weeks / 1 month, or more, of time going backwards and forwards with you, getting the information to put on the site and refining things. So to say how long it will take is not entirely possible before the project is completed. I can say if you give me all the information I need, and are going to accept the site as it is when I am completed, then I can give you a pretty accurate duration. That I can explain to you when you have gotten in touch with me, I have said 10 hours because I know it is less time that people are generally saying because I have used working time and not project duration, so I am using that piece of information to try and show you that I am more efficient than other designers.
Secondly traffic and return, those two things are dependent on your marketing and other factors and are very hard to determine beforehand. If it is for an industry that I work with a lot I may have an idea, but there is no way to be able to give that information to any degree of accuracy before knowing exactly what you are going to be offering, so those are simply random figures that I would try to accomplish for you or give you a good reason as to why they were not accomplished, but again this is after I have you as a client and the initial objective was achieved.
Now that is no where near the types of headlines I am referring to, but it was something I thought I could use to explain how to use a simple information message to achieve a personal objective, and how it can rather subtle and not obvious.
A couple of the ones I have been seeing are:
Its 5G and not COVID-19 – there are so many claims made in these articles, video and audio posts, some of them really provide an entire story around it and they tell you to do your own research yet not of them provide any links to their research, they reference science research institutions, yet again no links and after spending a little time trying to research some of what they say I have not been able to verify any of the information based on where they say they get it from, and it honestly is much easier to just side with them and decide it is a worldwide government conspiracy. They haven’t convinced me yet because it sounds like theory not based on anything other that peoples opinions. If there is sound reasons behind this link it should be shared rather than just saying to “go research it yourself”.
When I listen to a talk by Dr Milton Mills, he breaks everything down and explains exactly why certain things work the way they do, and any research I have done on particular topics is backed up by other professional research. When I try and research links between 5G and COVID-19 I get a whole lot of results from other theorists and have not yet found any professional studies that provide enough information to show a link, if there are studies by professionals link to them, reference them, make it possible for people to do the research. That does not seem to be what they want though, they want to create a sensational publication that gives them fame and builds a following rather than helping people to know the truth.
The next question is how can you trust anyone’s research, for example if you are told that a potato can power a clock, you can actually go out and get a potato and a clock and you can test it for yourself. In this scenario you are not forced to trust anyone if you decide you need to test it yourself.
This means there is not much controversial debate over the possibility.
But as soon as it becomes more complex it becomes more difficult and in some cases almost impossible to achieve a test yourself, for example the level of education you would need to be able to study for yourself the effects of 5G on the human body are not what everyone learns in school, and you would have to dedicate a lot of time to learning about it, only to then take on flat earthers and spend another lifetime achieving a position to provide your own evidence, and in both of those cases by the time you have achieved the relevant education, you are then written off as having been compromised and your research can no longer be trusted.
The basic understanding I get is that you should not trust anyone else’s research regardless of what it is about, unless it is being told to you by someone who is telling you that you should not believe other people, then you can trust them. The alternative is to only believe what you can actually test yourself and not to trust anything else, or simply believe there is a sinister plan behind everything. At least in some cases you could be right.
In my personal opinion I think keeping an open mind, learning what you can about things, not getting stuck on them and spending your time crafting the life you want and focus on being a happy person. So how much money you can make on YouTube doesn’t make a difference to me unless I feel I want to start a YouTube channel to earn money. If I decide I want to do that there is enough information available from people who have made it to people who failed miserably, I can research it until I can make a decision on if I would like to try it for myself. And when I decide that finding out for myself if the earth is flat or round in the only way that would give me irrefutable proof I will sign up for astronaut school and get on the path that will give me the only research you can truly trust, which is obviously your own.
5G may have negative effects on people, and there are people who dedicate their lives to research that, who have the tools and facilities to research it, so sharing thousands of videos based on peoples opinion, is not doing anything to help I’m sorry to say. Just like telling people they’ll fall off the edge of the world won’t stop them travelling, and telling people Elvis is alive wont change anyone’s life. Be willing to learn about what interests you, what affects your life and spend your time doing things to create the life you want. There is the economy, art, music, nature, photography, psychology, technology, agriculture, hunger, war, history, so so so many things worth learning about that will make with worthwhile and give you the ability to implement any changes you want to see, those are worth spending time learning about, worth sharing and if being a non believer, an controversial figure is what makes you happy, then spend your time getting proof and share information that cannot be brushed off with logical explanations and proof. A photo from space is always going to be more believable than simply claiming it is fake because you don’t believe it.
Consider there are people who believe life is just a simulation anyway and everything we experience is what we actually create, in that case any conspiracy you uncover could simply be one you created. So based on that, stop creating a world in which we all have to share in these experiences and please create a happy, fulfilled life for us all.
