We did tell you, didn't we?

Many years ago, one of my brothers and I lived together while we were both at university. There were two things that took up our time when not studying, working or partying.

Gaming and Research.

The gaming was mostly Total Annihilation and later Ghost Recon. The research however is why I am writing this.

Research may not be what many people call it as it was not exactly scientific. It was the late 90s and the internet as we know it today was just taking serious mainstream hold. What did we research?

Conspiracies. All sorts of different types from JFK's assassination to aliens and ancient Indian texts. There really was quite an eclectic range to choose from. We spent many, many nights up late searching (Google didn't exist) a wide range of topics and went down many rabbit holes.

It is not that we believed them, it is just that we didn't believe what we were being told. For me at least, I still don't. I feel like there is a world that goes on above what my limited power can reach. A world of secrets and lies that are part of a game that I will never have entry to but affects me daily.

I am not a conspiracy theorist. But, I am also not deaf to the leaks that seep through the cracks only to be washed away as if they have not happened. I wrote an article a while ago on paedophilia and mentioned a case from my city that was cleansed when I was young.

For me, the conspiracy set offers alternative thinking points . What ifs that I am unlikely to have asked by myself. I think there are many in this world that find thinking wider enjoyable too and there are many that may get trapped there also.

But, through all of the researching, uncountable sites, there was one question I always had. Why is the design so ugly?

Every site was a mix of fonts and font sizes, clashing colours, poorly placed pictures, bad alignment and patterned backgrounds. Plus, enough synchronised flashing of pictures and words to give a seizure.

Yet, for the most part, the text itself was fairly well written and arguments were often compelling enough to have a second look and follow references. How can there be such conflict in presentation styles?

Even if you factor in the types of people who may create them, for me, it doesn't add up. They were too uniform in their design, too much repetition. Almost like a team of people had developed it to be unattractive and dismissable by nature.

What if, I asked my brother, this information is correct and it is the powers that be informing us of what is actually going on? Doing it this way would save them on a technicality. After all, they did inform us.

What if a large portion of what the mainstream population has discounted as nonsense is actually true, or at least somewhat true? All of the crazy government conspiracies, pizzagate, wars, the Illuminati, chemtrails, flouride, false flag operations...

Do I believe that these sites are government fronts disseminating information, collecting IP addresses? Of course not.

But what if?

Taraz
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Just for something a bit different. It makes me feel a bit sick to scroll through this :)