A Zero Trust Society

"High Strangeness" incoming? A Black Swan event lurking in the shadows? World War III escalating? Or will nothing happen? In the absence of trust, conspiracy theories abound ...

High Strangeness surrounding the April 8th eclipse?

According to the latest “conspiracy theory” forecasts, we could see plenty of “high strangeness” throughout North America during the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8th (this Monday!). Some of these theories may seem a little out there, but so did a lot of other things that subsequently turned out to be completely true.

Ours is a zero-trust society, and crazy-sounding conspiracy theorists are usually far more trustworthy than government officials, mainstream journalists, academic researchers, etc. As we have seen, the credentialed “experts” who brandish the regime’s imprimatur have been consistently and catastrophically wrong about everything that matters.

A growing number of people, possibly even a majority, now accept that this is so, even if most of them are reluctant to acknowledge it publicly. People are sick of being conned and gaslit by the powers-that-be.

High Strangeness Incoming …

Something seems odd about the upcoming solar eclipse. From Texas to Canada, state and local governments are preemptively declaring states of emergency.¹ Oklahoma will deploy its National Guard.² Texas will restrict commercial trucking that day.³ NASA will fire three rockets into the moon’s shadow at precisely 3:33pm (for reasons that I’m sure have absolutely nothing to do with occult numerology).⁴ These rockets have been named after Apep, an ancient Egyptian serpent deity who tried to murder Ra, the Sun god, and who was also a harbinger of violent cataclysm and death (how very heartwarming!).⁵ Meanwhile, over in Europe, CERN will be firing up their large hadron collider during the eclipse to smash protons together in an effort to find “dark matter”⁶ (Wow! Sounds like a Stranger Things episode!).

But don’t worry! Your friendly neighborhood not-for-profit (who funds them?) and totally trustworthy (they’ve certainly never gotten anything wrong before!) professional fact checkers have checked everything out and certified that everything’s fine, there’s no cause for concern, and those crazy conspiracy theorists are just being paranoid.⁷

Now, I scanned through the announcements from various state and local governments about their rationale for making emergency declarations in advance of the eclipse, and admittedly, much of it makes sense. A million or so extra people showing up simultaneously in a rural county could easily overwhelm local infrastructure and emergency personnel. [Of course, the biggest reason for declaring a state of emergency is the one nobody articulated: by declaring one, you get access to the federal teat, so why not? We’re only $34 trillion in the hole! Might as well get an extra few million for your local government while the gravy train is still flowing!]

But despite how plausible these explanations sound, the whole thing still feels off. Maybe it’s me being paranoid. Maybe it’s the strange times in which we live. Maybe it’s the after-effects of all the COVID hysteria and color-revolution shenanigans of 2020 and 2021. Maybe it’s the escalating geopolitical tensions: America (via her proxies) is currently at war with Russia over Ukraine and could soon also be at war with China over Taiwan; meanwhile, our greatest albatross, Israel, seems determined to draw America into yet another war in the Middle East, and our AIPAC-owned politicians are only too eager to oblige. Something is rotten in this world, and everyone with a nose can smell it.