Something Ugly This Way Comes

I see an organized effort of pro-alt-right trolls and sock puppets stalking the internet, and not just from American and European factions but especially Russia. While some have actual identities, there are the ones who change nicks and avatars wherever convenient, leaving a trail of fake accounts behind them. It’s pure psychological warfare that likes to thrive on any open-public groups and individuals who have a large following, especially if it involves any debates on socio-political or religious issues. This is where sock puppets come into play, intent on overwhelming the target with opposition, usually spouting rhetoric in a crude derogatory way. For the more sensitive of us, this can be a real intellectual turn-off, reduced to a choice between fight or flight. Of course fight only degenerates under a barrage of cajolery, unless you have admin rights. Then it’s a matter of sussing out the fakes and banning the culprit. This is what I did to Nigel Farage on FB when he tried to come onto me with the AfD and nazi catchwords like “Lebensraum”. In the pagan world, I’ve seen these shysters come on with every kind of new age fantasm from ancient aliens to antarctic atlantis, say nothing of the Pleiadean masterrace and Dravidian lizard conspiracies. No surprise that this lot get their money from wankers like Arron Banks. The real reason behind their agenda is to befuddle people with so much utopian woowoo, that they lose all sense of healthy skepticism if not the real world altogether. Well sorry pal (no actually I’m not) but being pagan doesn’t mean I have to regard logical reasoning as some kind of throwback to a bad 50s SciFi, save the Walmart-esque pseudo-culture. Sell your snake oil and fake news elsewhere.

In this day and age of fake news and blame shifting regimes, it’s no surprise how many wannabe crusaders have fallen folly to such overpaid-overrated shills as Julian Assange, Alex Jones and David Icke. While I am sure what motivates these people has more to do with vanity beyond its wildest dreams of avarice, it’s not like Edward Snowden really proved more than what we figured all along. Yeah, let’s blame the Russians for opportunity as if embargoes are really going to stop anything. It only makes the secret deals all the more profitable for the contenders. Have we really evolved above the oneupmanship of harem building? I think not. As long as there’s something to be had on the sly, there will always be nosy neighbours and shysters. Save the conspiracy theories, most denials serve to cover up some really perversely stupid mistakes, nothing ingenious. Just follow the money if you want to know what’s really going on.