Every time I heard Alex Jones, I think of this:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAA88UjPUA"]YouTube - Alex Jones needs his meds[/ame]
When it comes to "conspiracy theories" I believe there are people like Alex Jones and people like our very own Guerilla. People who try to create bad guys we can point fingers at, and people who look at things in a more rational manner. In other words, people who try to profit off of fear, and people who operate with clarity and focus. A lot of what people consider conspiracy has a lot of validity to it. The fear mongers rob their topics of their validity and make it easier for people to write off and ignore.
Someone said earlier that this forum doesn't like Obama, and doesn't seem to like McCain much either. That's a good place to start. The better viewpoint is to understand that politicians want to appear to serve the general population only so far as doing so will make them happy and complacent. Then they go and serve their real masters. The "special interests" which funded their campaigns. These special interests are not Dr Evil. They are just those who benefit from the status quo, who have a vested interest in the status quo remaining so.
What scares me is people who shit in the conspiracy theory punch bowl, making the whole damn thing unappetizing for the majority of people to investigate. The reality is less dramatic than the conspiracy theory fantasies peddled by Alex Jones and those like him, but far less profitable. The reality is that there are people who have power and desire more. They do unscrupulous thing to achieve and retain that power. But this isn't some James Bond flick, or a post-apocalyptic schlock movie. The reality is far more pedestrian. Those in power know that the general populous has, even at this moment, the power to tear them down. So they manuver, slowly and methodically, to work against threats to their power.
This was, is, and always will be (appropriately enough) a war over the control of information. The strongest strategy in any war is spreading misinformation. The more people allow themselves to fantasize about outlandish schemes and plots by evil geniuses, the less opportunity they will have to deal with the real problems that really stand before us.
It's like walking down a dark alley, worrying about flying martian ninjas, while disregarding the very real threat of a two-bit thug with a rusty knife.
To help facilitate the removal of misinformation, please view the following video in its entirety.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5JW8XWX6oU"]YouTube - 9 minutes of hypnotoad![/ame]