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Salon Hit Piece Implies Truth Seeking Is A Mental Illness
Ludicrous "agony uncle" advises that
teenagers visiting Alex Jones' websites may be psychologically
unstable
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 An
advice columnist for the influential left leaning website Salon.com
has launched a scathing attack on Alex Jones in response to
a letter from a reader who says his 17 year old nephew has been
"sucked into the Internet conspiracy black hole" created
by Jones.
Salon's
Cary Tennis refers to Jones as a "cultish
fear-monger" and advises the reader named "Buck"
that his nephew's visits to Jones' websites may be an indication
that he is mentally disturbed.
Tennis initially reels off the usual psychobabble
about people wanting to find simple explanations for complex
things, needing to feel like there is a vast conspiracy to get
them, and wanting to feel like they are privy to exclusive information
that the masses are not aware of.
YAWN.
Towards the end of his response, however, he makes
the following remarks:
I do not want to conclude without making explicit
that if he has dyslexia or some kind of attention-deficit
disorder, those are things that should be diagnosed and treated
on their own. If his mother's coddling has prevented him from
facing up to these possible problems, that could be adding
to his anxiety. So I would definitely, in addition to the
camping trip, or wilderness expedition, do what you can to
bring to light any organic, diagnosable and treatable conditions
he may have. Treating them will not only improve his abilities
but give him some confidence that obstacles can be overcome
and differences in ability can be compensated for.
Labeling as mentally disturbed anyone who is skeptical or open
to the possibility that conspiracies may have a basis in reality
is a move we have witnessed before.
Last month Psychology Today published a piece with
the exact same implications. Writer John Gartner made Alex Jones
the centerpiece of a story in which he attempted to define distrust
of authorities and alternative explanations for the “official
story” put out by governments and their corporate media
arms as mental illness.
In our previous
article we pointed out that there is a long history
of those very forms of authority designating dissenting explanation
as a psychological illness as a means to stamp it out along
with all forms of critical thinking.
Salon's Cary Tennis got the gig as the website's
"agony uncle" advice columnist, by his own admission,
mainly due to a troubled past. He occasionally makes reference
to the fact that he is a recovering alcoholic and that these
challenges in his own life have led him to find a connection
with others who are in trouble.
I could respond by reeling off a parade of pseudo-psychological
clap trap about Tennis wanting to believe other people are troubled
because it exorcises his own demons blah blah blah, but instead
I will just state that Tennis' attempt to play at being Sigmund
Freud is tired and weak.
Free thinking people are flocking to Alex Jones'
websites not because they are "looking for a system that
explains why things are fucked up", but because they have
been consistently lied to by a cabal calling itself government
operating through both political parties. They are distressed
that elites continue to wage wars in their names, continue to
hand over the fruits of their labor to offshore banks and corporations,
and continue to destroy their freedoms and lower their standard
of living.
Hacks like Tennis appear ludicrous when they accuse
those free thinkers of being out of touch with their own world
when the reality of the situation is the exact opposite.
Pick up a newspaper Mr Tennis, look around you.
Who is engaging in mental gymnastics? Is it Alex Jones, who
is gravely concerned about an engineered decline of society,
or is it you with your accusations that he and his readers may
be clinically insane for suggesting such a thing even exists?
With consideration, however, it is my guess is
that Tennis is not engaging in any kind of cognitive dissonance,
but that he is just plain lazy. My guess is that Tennis spent
less than five minutes evaluating Alex Jones, his standpoint
and the material he has produced over the course of the last
fifteen years, before tapping away a standard hack response
at his keyboard.
The mentally unstable conspiracy theorist in me
has another suggestion, however. Indulge me if you will.
The reader letter from "Buck" stinks
to high heaven.
The now standard attempt to link Alex Jones with
Fox News provocateur Glenn Beck rears its ugly head again, despite
the fact that Alex Jones has clearly
outlined his opposition to Beck's agenda on several
occasions.
The letter also compares the 17 year old nephew
to "young men in 1930s Germany... when told that they were
part of a master race being manipulated by the international
Jewish conspiracy", thus ridiculously and callously implying
that Alex Jones is akin to Hitler.
In what seems to be a pre-determined anticipation
of our response to the attack piece, the letter also carefully
points out that the young impressionable mind of the teenager
interprets any any criticism of Jones as "a product of
the nefarious dark forces out to discredit the only man intelligent
enough and courageous enough to tell the truth."
Call me a paranoid conspiracy theorist, but the
letter has all the hallmarks of a carefully concocted smear
piece.
Salon Media Group's board
of Directors reads like a who's who of corporate
media executives. The publication also routinely carries columns
by globalist philanthropist George
Soros, who is always intrinsically
linked with routine attacks on Alex Jones directed
from the left.
Outlets such as Salon, Media Matters, The Daily
Kos and Think Progress have begun attacking Alex Jones precisely
because they see his truly individual status, ultimate bipartisanship
and real grassroots popularity as a threat to their misconceived
"new media" empire.
If "Buck" is a real person he really
has done his homework in following the Soros directed attack
program to a tee in his letter.
Of course, all that is in my attention-deficit
disorder riddled mind. Perhaps I need to take Mr Tennis' advice
and get out into the wilderness some more.
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Addendum: I cannot let slip one more rather cheap shot from
the Salon piece which comes in the form of criticizing Alex
Jones based on advertisements on his websites. Tennis derides
our acceptance of "comic book" style ads for "Powerful
Herbal Medicines", while directly opposite his comments,
and plastered all over his article for that matter, are a comic
book like ads for "The antioxidant superpower" of
100% natural pomegranate juice, instantly rendering his point
hypocritical in addition to it's permanent irrelevance.
Here is a screen shot:
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