2024-12-27
OK, with Christmas done and dusted, now is the time to return to the hard realities ... well, certainly hard as opposed to easy, but maybe not hard as in 'we can physically hit it and we hurt'.
So set aside all that left-over Christmas pudding that we couldn't face down on top of all the previous courses (not to mention glasses) that we faced down pre-yesterday (there, I gave us a day already to recover), we have serious, and yes, difficult, concepts to bend our minds around going forward. And best to get our poor heads around it whilst still feeling at least slightly mellow, so we may approach it in relaxed fashion and regard it without the usual 'that's way too hard for me just now' feeling that means that we never get started.
This is, fairly exceptionally, one for the dyed-in-the wool conspiracy theorists, so listen up. The rest us can sit back, relax, and continue in mellow tranquillity with whatever we were going to do today - this is way too deep for us.
Still with me? Good.
Now let me say straight away that there are assertions here with which I / we may not concur, but the main thrust of it does seem compelling, once we grasp it. And it "changes everything" (sorry for that hackneyed phase) depending on whether or not we already knew it, even if we hadn't already formed the definition into words.
Still, it does offer some thoughts about how we might make sense of some of the major "rich and famous" personalities (eg: Elon Musk) who make the global news (traditional, social, and corporate).
It also raises some interesting questions about how we "conspiracy theorists" should proceed ... but those are beyond the scope of the article.
So grasp the moment, open Pandora's Box, and dive in!
