Models

Over on Zachs blog Slomo suggests 4 possible models for understanding ritual abuse phenomena, peak oil, etc. Greed and short sightedness? Evil? Occult Evil? or non-human evil?

Model 1: Our politicians and business leaders are kindly servants who are looking after our interests and taking care of us.

Model 2: Our politicians and business leaders are evil narcissistic bastards who are selling us out and using every possible technology to limit our freedoms and steal our resources.

Model 3: Our politicians and business leaders are evil narcissistic bastards who are selling us out and using every possible technology to limit our freedoms and steal our resources, including occult practices and secret black op mind control technology.

Model 4: Our politicians and business leaders evil alien shape-shifting reptilians who are selling us out and using every possible technology to limit our freedoms and steal our resources, including occult practices and secret black op mind control technology.

Clearly, Model 1 does not fit the data. I would argue that Model 3 and Model 4 are indistinguishable from the data at hand, which would lead us to reject Model 4. The question, then, is whether Model 2 or Model 3 is the “best” one. And, to use the principle of predictive power, I would argue that the one that provides more precise predictions of future events is the one that should be adopted.

I don’t know where to go with this but it is a very clever and succinct summary of the problem at hand.

From my POV the question is “Are there evil kung fu masters or not?”

If there are then that changes everything. But if there are they are certainly very clever in concealing their tracks.

Or maybe not. I have no problem believeing that the the Demiurge inspired the Roman Empire to co-opt Christianity and drive the gnostics underground. That Christianity survived a blast-force of energy and withered into something just plain wrong. That the truth will reemerge and transform and redeem Christainity some day.

Without artificially separating that period of history out from the current one I do wonder what the modern equivalent of such a dynamic would be. Evil leaders who suppress the truth about ritual abuse and peak oil?

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