Every week it seems there is some new conspiracy theory. Evil government, false flags and the rest of it. Now I'm not saying they're all bogus, but some are so silly I have a hard time believing smart people actually buy into them.
Take 'chemtrails', for example. There are some who believe in 'chemtrails' - the government deliberately spraying chemicals into the atmosphere for some inimical reason. Now this, if you give it an instant's logical thought, is just plain silly.
First, of all, why? Why would they do this? What is the point of spending several thousands of dollars per hour to do this? There are simpler, more cost effective ways of doing whatever it is these chemtrails are supposed to do if government wants to harm the sheeple.
There are our water sources (more on that, later) or our food, like cereals, bread and pasta since those are processed to death and packaged.
How hard would it be to have government push some new additive to the food industry, requiring that it be included in Kix or Cocoa Puffs or Golden Grain pasta or soda whatever other product if government wanted to do 'things' to the people?
Better still, how about flu shots or vaccines? Millions upon millions of people line up every year for their flu shots and tens of millions get their kids vaccinated.
But wait! Government is dependent on its sheeple to support it, so why would they deliberately do harm to the flock? After all, without the flock, government has no one to govern and control. Without the sheeple working hard and paying into the government's coffers, the government will cease to be. It's like the golden egg / goose thing. Kill the goose and the eggs stop coming.
So no, I'm afraid the chemtrail theories are beyond silly.
Then there's the claim that 'carcinogens have been added to municipal drinking water'! Well, okay. That's a true statement since, up until the past fifteen or twenty years, fluoride was routinely added to drinking water. That's because dentists noticed something a long time ago.
People in regions where there is naturally occurring fluoride in the water tended to have stronger teeth and fewer cavities. It was studied and examined and ultimately decided that it would be a good thing to add fluoride to drinking water in regions without naturally occurring fluoride. So they did, and I grew up drinking fluoridated water.
Are my teeth better because I did rather than didn't? I don't know and I don't know of any way to prove they are or they aren't and, frankly, it doesn't matter. I don't have cancer, either. And I didn't grow a second head or... anything.
Now, though, in this day and age when everyone is leery or outright afraid of government, conspiracy theories are everywhere. Some have at least some basis in fact and others don't.
Yes, municipalities and their water districts added fluoride - at a time before it was known that fluoride might cause cancer. Now we know better so we've stopped.
Does that mean that the municipalities and water districts had some devious plan to kill off the population through a cancer epidemic? Probably not, for the reasons previously stated: without the people government would have no one to govern and it would cease to be and without the people government couldn't collect money to run itself. Same with the water districts. Without customers, the districts don't exist.
Besides, cancer is a very expensive disease and since most people are middle income or low income, government would end up footing the bill for a lot of the treatment.
More recently, there's a to-do emerging about chromium 6 being found in water sources around Sacramento, California. Okay, and again, so what? See above about government / sheeple. Same question: why?
There's also the fact that it's a naturally occurring element! This excerpt is from the EPA's website, which was updated in November, 2015 (I've added the bold text):
Background on chromium
Chromium is an odorless and tasteless metallic element. Chromium is found naturally in rocks, plants, soil and volcanic dust, and animals.
The most common forms of chromium that occur in natural waters in the environment are:
- Trivalent chromium (chromium-3)
- Hexavalent chromium (chromium-6)
http://www.epa.gov/dwstandardsregulations/chromium-drinking-water
Now, reading around the web, I don't find anything that's going to make me stop drinking water. What I found is that chromium 6 is far more dangerous if it's airborne. If you get it on your skin or breathe it in, you have a far greater risk of suffering some horrible fate. Since the vast majority of us will never be exposed to dangerous levels of this naturally occurring element, it's not worth worrying about.
And that brings us to Flint, Michigan. Now this is criminal and if a whole bunch of people aren't prosecuted for criminal negligence and public endangerment, there is something seriously wrong in the State of Michigan.
Was it deliberate, though? Did the Flint, Michigan government deliberately collude with the water district to poison the water source? No, of course not. (Goose / eggs, remember?)
The Flint water district and city decided to divert river water through its existing lead pipes. The water is corrosive and those lead pipes, commonly used for plumbing and water service up until the 1970's when PVC pipe and other materials became cheap and available, leached lead into the water. Then, people started to complain about the quality of the water - it was discolored and it smelled and it tasted bad.
This eventually led to the discovery of the problem. No doubt the city and county looked into the bank accounts and realized they had a huge problem and no money to fix it but didn't want to scare the sheeple, so they did deliberately cover it up. And that's where the criminality begins.
However, if you opened your tap and ended up with a glass of water that looked like this:
I doubt it if you have a lick of sense. I mean, look at that. Those look like toilet leavings before flushing, don't they?
You would call your water district and complain, which no doubt happened, and then you would probably go out and find another source of water. Perhaps a bottle of water from your local supermarket. It's not terribly expensive and it does qualify as 'food' under the food stamp program so even if you are on food stamps you could manage it.
That, however, doesn't change the fact that there is a major crisis unfolding in Flint. It's a horrible, devastating situation for the families who live there but, and this is a very big but, the government did not deliberately poison the water. They did deliberately cover it up, but that's a different kettle of fish and one for the courts to sort out.
So, again, I'll sit back and watch the sheeple run in circles as they search for the next conspiracy to get wound up about.
Have a wonderful day.
Best~
Philippa
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On many of these, we must agree to disagree. I've done some heavy research on a few and know it isn't just bogus.
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