OK. When I asked Dala to post this, she showed it to me while I was rolling balls of cookie dough, so I was only skimming the article. I had no idea it was that fucked up. Which brings me to this question. How does this guy have such a radio show? I'm not saying "Oh no, how could we let this kind of thing happen? The First Amendment is awful!" What I'm asking is, who listens to this stuff? Do people actually take it that seriously or is this more like gawking at the weirdos? Cause I'll be honest with you, I thought television shows about alien pyramids and secret societies were a bit too much. This here, is a whole different level.
Art Bell was entertaining and interesting. When you listened to Art, it seemed like you got a good source of entertainment like a decent tv show and it was nothing more than that. But once Art left, Coasy to Coast really changed to a more conspiracy based show and this helped open up and expose people like Alex Jones to a wider audience. Art had built the audience up but once he left that audience didn't disappear over night. So with that exposure, people like Alex Jones could grab a part of that audience and hang on for a while before greater times for conspiracy and that is happening right now with Trump in office as conspiracy theories seem to be the normal things these days. Conspiracy used to be its own little niche but now it's really out in the open thanks to the Internet and programs like Coast to Coast.
I think it suggests the public's desire to consume kooky conspiracy crap has always been with us. Sure it's come a long ways since Art started his broadcast in the 80's but a vein of gold that has always been there for the wacky or unethical to mine. Art seemed like a gentle soul, Alex Jones seems like a total bastard.
This is probably giving the conspiracy 'community' too much credit, but we desire mystery. We desire myth and legend. We live in an era where all the great myths have been/are being torn down. All that longing for the mysterious has to go somewhere.the public's desire to consume kooky conspiracy crap has always been with us.
Below is one of my favorite journalists, Jon Ronson, exploring secret conspiracies with one of my least favorite "journalists", Alex Jones. In 2000. Long story short: This guy has a radio show because (1) the Soviet Union collapsed (2) "Liberals", under Clinton, took over the country (3) "Liberals", under Clinton, murdered Randy Weaver's wife and child (4) "Liberals," under Clinton, murdered all those fine people at Waco exactly one year later Thus, black helicopters, NWO, secret NATO road signs, and the general unhingement of the American Right: without Reagan Republicans calling the shots against the Evil Empire, any Thinking Patriot can tell that the liberal brainslugs are trying to sap our Precious Bodily Fluids.