Conspiracy again/always

I notice the Conspiracy Theorists are out again about how we are purposely being made terrified by MSM on Ukraine as they did with Covid.

There are always lurid headlines. That’s what the press does. They have done that since newspapers and pamphlets began. One has to read between the lines, a skill learned through the generations.

I am 77. Crises are not new! I have lived through….

World War Two

Nagasaki and Heroshima

Chinese Civil War

Berlin Blockade

The Partition of India

Scarlet Fever, Polio, TB, Diphtheria epidemics

Korean War

Suez Crisis

Vietnam War

Cold War

Asian Flu and Hong Kong flu

Cuban Crises

Kennedy assassination

Aids

Hutu/Tutsi Rwanda genocide

Rhodesian War

Six-Day War

Gulf War

Kosovan War

Nine Eleven

Iraq and Iran

War in Afghanistan

Gadaffi and the “Arab Spring”

Syria

Ebola

The take over of Hong Kong

SARS-CoV-2

Putin’s War on Ukraine

I remember as a small child being terrified by world events being discussed by alarmed grownups. As an adult, I am as alarmed as they were.

It’s not fake. It’s not propaganda. These are real events. It’s History reported by a lurid Press.

More lurid than anything else are the new Ukraine Conspiracy theorists strutting their stuff on YouTube. As a bonus they add stuff like “Covid was a Hoax” “Vaccinations have killed millions of people” etc etc. to “Ukraine is a hoax by the Global Elites” or a collaboration by Trump and Putin to “drain the swamp”.

The first thing I listen for are the unhinged hysterical timbre of the voices speaking.

It is unnerving to think that people have moved away from reading the always lurid and biased old fashioned mainstream press, to fashioning their own lurid and biased fantasies that millions of historically ignorant folk might actually believe!

People seem to get a thrill from being frightened and unhappy. How sad.