Don’t get me wrong, I love conspiracies. They make the world crazier and more fun. I find it entertaining to think about all the weird theories floating around and trying to keep my sanity at the same time. It doesn’t always work out that way but it sure is fun looking at the abbys.
I’ve written extensively about some of my favorite conspiracies, such as Geomagnetic reversal, Aliens and Atlantis, Hidden Power, Hollow Moon, and Evidence of Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars. But, at least I hope so, I have maintained a critical view of such things and provided a fun overview of what makes them interesting.
But in recent times I have been seeing more and more weird pictures popping up and my spidey senses started tingling, something was wrong. In particular, the images are variations of this one:
What struck me odd at first was that the Indian statue in the middle of the screen looked nothing like Indian art but like art from Mexico, in particular Mayans that lived there. As a kid, I was fascinated with Mayans and Incas, read all that I could get my hands on, and even wrote several papers for my elementary school presentations. So, when I looked at that statue it looked wrong and did not belong there. After 1min search, I found that it is a modified picture of Ix Chel, the jaguar goddess of the Maya.
Ok, if that’s fake, what else is fake? A quick Google lens search later revealed that almost the entire composition is fake.
Now, after satisfying my curiosity I started to wonder, why. Why would someone go to all the trouble of trying to fool people of such things when there are genuine mysteries of the world? The only thing I could conclude is that there are two reasons.
The first one is to make gullible people more easily discernable amid the population so we can stay clear of them. You know, the people that go along with the flow without ever stopping and thinking if what they are being told is true.
The second reason is to blur the waters, with a mix of half-truths and lies sprinkled among genuine information across entire fields of study and theories making it hard to do any proper inquiry into what is considered proper science. Just take a listen to how Zahi Abass Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs of Egypt reacts to being confronted with a different opinion of his “truth”.
The rigidity of modern science is astounding. Long gone are the days when free inquiry was the norm. Now shut up or go away, get canceled. No new approaches can be looked at or even discussed in any established field, be it archeology or physics which has been stuck looking for energy strings for half a century.
The best example of this are discoveries made with lidar in the rainforests. It has long been accepted as the truth that no large cities ever existed in the Amazon even if we had historical evidence of them but those were just fanciful stories told by impresionable primitive humans, right? It wasn't until recently when airplanes with lidar scanning equipment went over it and discovered massive cities with interconnecting roads that researchers were forced to face the inevitable, that they were wrong.
This still does not answer the questions of why and who. I could not find the original source of those images but I would not be surprised if it were some 4chan trolling gullible people like what they did in 2017 when they managed to convince the entire world that the OK hand sign is actually a hidden racist sign.
This is only possible if critical thinking is absent, in the presence of indifference and a culture without curiosity. If there is no care about the quality of information you are ingesting then nothing can stop from you being misinformed, this includes the so-called Main Stream Media, especially CNN.
In today’s world, there is nothing more important than having a fully-rounded education and a curious mind. This enables you to have a “spidey” sense about misinformation and to watch out for things like confirmation bias and Cognitive dissonance (my favorite kind of dissonance).
If any information sounds too good to be true(confirmation bias) or makes you feel uncomfortable(Cognitive dissonance), stop, take a big breath, and disassociate yourself from what you know (think you know) so you can analyze incoming information without emotions, if their argument is valid or good enough do some more searching, a couple of minutes with google should suffice, adjust your knowledge and incorporate it back.
That’s it for this quick post. I just had to do a simple write-up as those images started to pop up all over the place and instead of arguing with people that those are fake, I wanted to have a link to point them to.
To end off, here’s a link to some other posts I’ve done on the topic: