I’m going to arbitrarily and nonsensically address this in five tiers for space and time management. Conspiracy grifting misses out on nuance and context, to arbitrarily assign negative qualities to members of a group, of which the individual somewhat randomly chosen individuals in a group do not possess. Being attacked simply for having the wrong gematria decode number come up, choice of color of clothing worn that day, accidentally holding their hands in a manner deemed to be a satanic symbol or any manner of similar nonsense. Some of that nonsense makes more sense, but as I’ve just said, people are assholes.
At the top of the pyramid is humans. The only species currently having the knowledge to understand that we engage in counterproductive activity that also drags down the quality of life of others. And it’s a never ending struggle to figure out how to address this. Evolution provided us with a relatively long life span accompanied with a low reproductive rate, at least relative to the other tiers. We’re able to make decent short term decisions unconsciously, but have proven in recent history, not so much. Learning to “not fuck with the bear today” does not equate to financial success or happiness beyond having another day to make a decision on what to do with the next bear.
Next, the other animals, the ones that some people assign souls to since they behave in a manner more intelligent than cruder life forms that appear to just want to eat. We’ve performed long term experiments on these. Now we have yippy little dogs that survive as a species simply because some people think the demonic little ankle biting bastards are cute. And the larger breeds can become a status symbol who are enjoyed by those who think that my dog being able to beat up your dog is cool. We’ve bred horses for speed beyond the ability to easily survive in the wild since we like to gamble. We’ve made birds live low quality bird lives since they taste like chicken. And we’ve killed reptiles to turn them into shoes. The common factor - the lack of knowledge on how their existence may or may not be impacting the quality of life for other creatures on the planet.
Then there’s the insects. Other than bad science fiction movies there’s no conscious thought to impact on others. Unlike the higher animals including humans they survive as a species by reproducing like crazy. In a group started from the same direct descendants they have evolved to recognize friend and foe, but as soon as foe is recognized it’s time to rumble. They will “fuck with the bear” regardless of personal risk. The good of the hive is maintained by sacrifice of some noble kamikaze bees. This is hardly conscious, but a defensive reaction to the bear fucking with the bees first.
Bacteria are a thorn in the side for evolution deniers. They’ve taken the reproductive strategy of the insects to the extreme. Lenski’s famous E. Coli with the ability to assess changes in multiple generations in a short time (at least compared to millions of years just for humans to learn to not fuck with the bear) demonstrates the effectiveness of species survival just by breeding. A bacteria colony can kill itself off pretty rapidly too by overpopulation. The food runs out and bacteria poop doesn’t make its way to bacteria sewage plants and dead bacteria cells don’t get recycled and turned into bacteria condos and bacteria park benches. And if they are particularly well suited to fuck with bears they absolutely will fuck with the bears.
Viruses are still controversial on the being alive or not thing, just as controversial as how the word controversy is pronounced. Britain has some weird ideas, apparently just because they claimed the language first. The sole reason for existence is to find some chemical sequences to utilize to make more of themselves to find more chemical sequences to utilize. If you think these are conscious actions, you’ve seen too many bad science fiction movies. And the obligatory reference, some viruses aren’t just willing, they pretty much only can utilize the chemicals of bears and will fuck with bears without fucking with anything else.
Placing conspiracy grifters on one of these tiers is a challenge based on the reproductive cycle and the fucking with the bear test. They do not act like a normal human, where offspring is (arguably) nurtured and protected in order to survive to reproductive age. They regularly fuck with the bear. They actively search out bears to fuck with. And they prefer to let other humans do their dirty work since it’s better to not be the target of a bear that has been fucked with too much.
So not entirely human, but are they at least a higher animal? Nah. There’s no long term survival instinct. Whatever bad news strikes is what needs to be capitalized on today. Future be damned. If climate change finishes me off, it’s better to have a couple bucks in the bank now, and maybe have a big Armageddon party with the other grifters. No bears allowed.
I think we’re closer with insects. There’s a definite hive mentality in regards to foes. But these foes are deliberately sought out to attack, at the cost of maybe doing something more productive for the long term. Compared to humans, insects have mastered cooperation. But Truthers, on any given day, can and do attack each other. The choice of foe fluctuates rapidly. Bears are ok for foes, but like insects a foe that doesn’t fight back is ideal. I sense a decode predicting the death of celebrity bears, who being dead don’t fight back, to be a dominant theme in the near future.
Bacteria, now we’re actually taking a step back in the comparisons. It takes a lot of effort to groom the target to make it susceptible. The conspiracy grifter already needs a susceptible audience to operate. Not every bacteria colony member is equally susceptible. Bacteria don’t make good identifiers of friend or foe, so they need to be guided, that guidance being misguided.
So they’re not viruses, either. No friend or for identification in actual viruses unless they stumble on the right chemical sequence. No conscious thought on the target selection. But what we have is a weird sort of hybrid virus. The goal is to guide the new virus particles to act in a mindless target selection manner. Get them constantly sharing memes, parroting thoroughly debunked talking points. Get them to fuck with the government bears to search out the right bits of chemical sequences to produce more angry chemical sequences. The top grifters care about continued survival and wealth of resources, and they’ve convinced the other weird virus particles that they care about the master weird virus particles more than their own survival.
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