An anti-conspiracy theory cliche bites the dust

"How could thousands of people keep a secret that huge???" (Remember that one?)

Back in halcyon days, before we so-called “conspiracy theorists” had been thoroughly vindicated, those who styled themselves sober-minded thinkers had a handy-dandy excuse to summarily dismiss those who questioned the OA (official account) of events.

This always highly specious and gallingly superficial, but seemingly reasonable line ran as follows: Whenever there is an alleged conspiracy, that means that a lot of people are having to keep a secret. If 9/11 wasn’t just 19 Islamic hijackers armed with boxcutters/ if the assassination of JFK wasn’t just a disgruntled Communist acting alone/ if the orchestrated panic surrounding Covid-19 were in actuality a carefully constructed psy-op, hyping if high-level individuals in government/Hollywood/the military/academia were really involved in child-trafficking, then just imagine how many people had to be in on this plot. Wouldn’t somebody, somewhere, spill the beans? Such a notion simply beggars belief!

I recall that some dissenter from this “it’s impossible to keep a secret with so many people allegedly in the know” doctrine rightly pointed out that there was a certain project which took place in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the early 1940s, one which involved somewhere around 130,000 people (and those are the official numbers, see link) who collectively managed to keep their top-secret activities under wraps for years on end. I have never heard a retort to that challenge, though I imagine that the physic toll surely taken on people developing a weapon designed for mass murder of civilians must have caused many a temptation for some lips to be loosened from time to time, especially if some surely conscience-stricken participant in the Manhattan Project were to visit a local watering hole and imbibe some quantity of alcohol.

Really, though, it isn’t that hard to imagine why thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people, would be able to keep their mouths shut under such circumstances. The explanation is quite simple, and it goes something like this: The powerful people in charge of these operations tell their underlings, Keep this a secret, and we’ll give you lots of money. Also, we’ll let you and your loved ones live, and even prosper. On the other hand, tell the secret, and we’ll see to it that you become a social pariah and are unable to get a job, plus we’ll maybe kill you and your loved ones, too.

Not bad when it comes to incentive, no? A pretty tasty carrot, and a pretty fearful stick, working together in tandem, do wonders for the overall cause of mass persuasion. And few entities have the ability to simultaneously bribe and threaten as the very deep state actors who would orchestrate such events as those detailed above.

Then again, the claim of “thousands of people can't keep a secret, even when lucratively bribed and/or terrifyingly threatened” does, in fact, have outliers. Some people— not many, but a few courageous souls— become what are sometimes known as “whistleblowers.”

The Covid scamdemic event, for example, featured a handful of dissenters, scientists and doctors with indisputably prestigious credentials, who turned against lockdowns and vaccine mandates with a vengeance. Such individuals were treated with punitive contempt by the medical establishment, of course, and most of them suffered numerous social, professional, and political penalties for having the gall to break from the enforced hive mind of the day.

Likewise, there have been whistleblowers from other ops, who have paid an even steeper price, including high profile figures whose integrity superseded their zealousness to maintain social standing. Many of these have perished under highly mysterious circumstances, including not a few very dubious “suicides.”

So we find, in the end, that the “if it were a huge conspiracy, somebody would talk” fails to account, both for the likely artificiality of the consensus— which again, can clearly be exposed as bought and coerced— and for the fact that in fact, some people formerly a part of the consensus in fact do talk, and are afterwards either pelted with sanctimonious obloquy by spokesmen for the political establishment and their mainstream media mouthpieces, or professionally shunned and blackballed, or simply disposed of, or all three in quick succession.

I’m not sure what the debunkers, fag(ct) checkers, and duly appointed enforcers of official story orthodoxy will do now that the jig is pretty much up on this bogus claim, but I’m sure they’ll try something.

Anyone still foolish enough to listen to them is, at this point, a lost cause.

Andy Nowicki is the author of several books, including The Insurrectionist, Muze, and The Rule of Wrath, the shocking memoir The Secret Life of an Alt-Right ‘Operative.’ , and now the mind-bending alt-historical romance The Curtsy and the Kiss. Visit his YouTube channel.