11-11-2010, 04:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2010, 06:18 PM by Charles Drago.)
I'm going to regret this.
HYPOTHESIS: Detectable fakery of moon landing photography was created and disseminated to launch (pun intended) conspiracy theories designed to A) reinforce the "nothing can be known for certain" foundation upon which contemporary socio-political power and academic inquiry is partially but significantly based; B) further Balkanize an already fractured deep political research community; and C) assault American exceptionalism and thus taint all other inquiries into historical conspiracies in general and the JFK conspiracy in particular.
ALL-IMPORTANT STIPULATION: The hypothetical fakery and larger operation of which it is the key component would be effective whether or not actual Apollo moon landings happened.
SCENARIO I -- The Apollo landings took place as advertised. A number of legitimate photos are quickly doctored so as to indicate fakery and thus support the "uncertainty conspiracy" herein hypothesized.
SCENARIO II -- The Apollo landings never took place. Flawless AND detectable faked photographs were created to support the "uncertainty conspiracy" herein hypothesized.
PRECEDENTS: The Zapruder Film; the so-called (by me, at any rate) Doppelganger Gambit.
DISCLAIMIER: I'm not prepared to go to the wall with the hypothesis herein presented. Yet.
HYPOTHESIS: Detectable fakery of moon landing photography was created and disseminated to launch (pun intended) conspiracy theories designed to A) reinforce the "nothing can be known for certain" foundation upon which contemporary socio-political power and academic inquiry is partially but significantly based; B) further Balkanize an already fractured deep political research community; and C) assault American exceptionalism and thus taint all other inquiries into historical conspiracies in general and the JFK conspiracy in particular.
ALL-IMPORTANT STIPULATION: The hypothetical fakery and larger operation of which it is the key component would be effective whether or not actual Apollo moon landings happened.
SCENARIO I -- The Apollo landings took place as advertised. A number of legitimate photos are quickly doctored so as to indicate fakery and thus support the "uncertainty conspiracy" herein hypothesized.
SCENARIO II -- The Apollo landings never took place. Flawless AND detectable faked photographs were created to support the "uncertainty conspiracy" herein hypothesized.
PRECEDENTS: The Zapruder Film; the so-called (by me, at any rate) Doppelganger Gambit.
DISCLAIMIER: I'm not prepared to go to the wall with the hypothesis herein presented. Yet.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene