When I was a boy, there were conspiracy theories that my parents warned me about.
The hippies claimed the oil companies were corrupting the government and causing wars to make profit, and our industrial trend would damage the Earth quite severely.
Those worrisome black radicals claimed that the government was targeting their communities by structuring the war on drugs to strike minority communities especially hard. They claimed minorities were systematically disadvantaged in education, healthcare, housing, and the criminal justice system.
The crazy hairy-armpit feminists women said there was tremendous unreported abuse of women at all social economic levels.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my parents were full of shit. All that shit turned out real. But it was told me as a strange and unacceptable arrangement of beliefs.
I tell you now that the book Lexicon can actually teach you something about language and people, and if you read it while upside down underwater and in the dark, it can connect you to a universe where all that shit is just as real. By telling you that, I conceptually inch your qualia-stream closer to that universe, and for some non-zero percentage of those reading this thread.....you are in that universe.
So imagine a conspiracy theory that several NSGeneralites have learned this, and are in fact by various means in control of the world in various ways. The joke, the cosmic joke that some god might make real just to see what it would like, is that the community formed from a book called Jennifer Government in a game about really controlling the world is the actual forum containing the entities that controls the world.
The World Assembly is more powerful than the United Nations. The petty veiled hostilities and factionalisms are the actual conflict and tensions of our world, and the bullshit show that we call geopolitics is just a corrupted material demiurge seeking to emulate the True Conflict, which happens in NS General.
Putin doesn't make a move until he knows what Greed and Death wants done. The utility companies in Luxembourg answer directly to Bombadii. Gallo completely controls the American IRS. Nanatsu holds the Japanese secret anthropomorphic robot-figherjet squadron in the palm of her hand like a phone.
The mods struggle to keep control. (I won't name the DEATED player, but he/she had Venezuela...) They prevent nuclear war by removing those who take the conflict too far, like the Minutemen in 100 Bullets, or Liam Neeson in Batman.
The only way to destroy the power of the Mods would be to collapse the real world so the technical and legal means by which the Mods control the RealTimeNSG universe, which require a functioning global high-tech human civilization. Interrupt that, and you stop the mods...
Over course, in their madness, these conspirators don't realize that it would also destroy the forum itself. They would win by destroying the universe, just like in <<insert culturally recognizable sci-fi reference here>>.
And maybe somewhere in the multi-verse, not impossibly even where you're reading this, this is actually the case.
Thread topic: Is that silliness any sillier than Q Anon? If there was a silliness level 5 for what I just wrote, where does Q Anon sit on that scale? Is there a way to quantify absurdity?
My opinion: No, it really isn't. It's even more plausibly, thankfully.
Further thread topic: What does it say that Q Anon is on the radar now?
My opinion: Not necessarily anything terminal, (in before the inevitable "well, we believed in Thor and Jesus and L.Ron Hubbard, so, you know....."), but it does seem the silliness is growing.
Does...does no one else see it growing?
