The real Conspiracy

I know many people who just love a conspiracy. Most actually are very sensible about them and even though they love to argue one point or another, they don't stick to any for too long. It's just too fun to find the next one.

Well I think I have. It's not a true 'conspiracy' where a group of elite distribute their dogma from the top in an effort to control the masses. No this one works the other way. This is the state of things today. Almost everyone who is big today has some wonderful tale about getting their out of slim pickings. Apple, eBay and even Microsoft was started in a basement, garage or back room. Yet now they are big. Way too big for little old me to do anything about how they work. Or am I? Well at the moment I am, or rather feel I am and this is why I'm writing to day. Most of these big companies who are no longer owned by their garage begining designers and have placed upon themselves the shroud of 'knowing what it's like to come from small beginings,' yet they have no clue. I'm still here and haven't yet discovered anything large enough to bring me any where near the power of an eBay.

So, what does this have to do with a new conspiracy? Well, the conspiracy started long ago, but shows it's self best when all of these little rising stars sold their souls to big business. As I stated before, this isn't your average conspiracy. This is a symptom of conspiracy. This is what is created when we allow other conspiracies to be swept under the rug. This is what's created when otherwise productive people are charmed by the desire to become something great overnight. What it has done to our economy has been devastating. What it has done to our way of life is killing America.

In simple terms, the desire for 'making it big' has been corrupted at it's foundation and we now have not just a few big and powerful overlords, but millions. Millions? Yes, each and everyone of us is now apart of the conspiracy and it's costing us all our livelihoods. But how does the average person contribute to this conspiracy? By buying into it. There are three main ways we do this.

First we believe that we need certain stuff to survive. If we don't have this stuff, then we can't possibly change our ways enough to survive. This ideal is so prevalent that the potato famine actually existed. Now, I'm sure that everyone will try to fire this down, but before you get in an emotional tirade, please think about it. How many people did that famine affect? Where did they live? Was there anything stopping them from going to the nearest field and eating grass like a horse? Now I really will test you, how many of you will actually go find out? I especially want to know if there were people who were sensible enough to do exactly what I suggested and lived? What other innovative survival stories can you glean from that time? When you can give me that information, I will be happy to debate you. My point however is that most people put themselves in exactly the right place to be apart of the conspiracy. Yes, I'm including myself mostly because I have yet to go grazing. This need for stuff makes all the big business run, every single one of us. I don't know how many people I know who can't afford a phone line, but still continue to live paycheck to pay check just so they can have two cell phones, an internet connection, two cars and a basement full of stuff they don't use and isn't being stored for an emergency.

Secondly we believe everything we see, hear and read. It doesn't matter how educated anyone is, everyone holds beliefs that if truly examined would be found to be useless. The really serious thing about this is that many of us have preconceived notions that are completely destructive to our very existence. Again I'm going to state something that someone else will vehemently disagree with: Every disease that exists is directly caused by our beliefs about ourselves and our world. In over ten years as a Certified Healer Practitioner I have yet to see anything that doesn't have an emotional foundation. Depending upon the information we have arbitrarily believed and how the individual sees him/her self, the disease will manifest in direct proportions. This includes the disease of big business. There would be no big chemical companies who poison us with petrochemicals in our food if we didn't believe in them. The problem is two fold because if we finally see that one company or person isn't being truthful (heaven forbid!) then we go in the opposite direction, we don't believe anything. In some cases this produces good results, but for the most part it just leaves everyone in a bind and they go back to what's safe instead of willing themselves to find truth and only stand for truth.

This brings us to the third way the average person contributes to this conspiracy, we are apathetic. Most people will not lift a finger to move out of their comfy seat in front of the TV to do anything about their own evils. They stop looking at ingredient lists when they shop, they only go for what's needed at the moment and don't care if it kills them. They happily stay ignorant of anything political, except to switch the channel or nod or shake their head at who ever is being presented today. How many even know that there are sites like mine or do they even care as long as the war isn't in our back yard and we've got enough to go to Mc Donald's for lunch tomorrow. the framers of the constitution knew it all to well.

"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"

Do you recognize the quote? What if I add the rest?

"Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" March 23, 1775

Now does it strike a chord? Patrick Henry knew all too well the comforts we love to value above making a stand.


This is what the next group of conspiracy aficionados must evaluate. How we ourselves become the quagmire that keeps corrupt systems running. How do we convince billions that if they really want peace they'd better think twice about filling big expensive houses with toys they can't truly afford? How do we rally all those football fans who have taken to public sport to drown themselves and isolate themselves from really getting involved in life. Well I'll tell you the ways I have been working at this problem:

Firstly I no longer believe that I need anything to survive. This is not to say that I reject everything, I just have come to the conclusion that everything I own means nothing in the face of survival. I am willing to loose everything, yet support myself in the most comfortable way I can. I no longer feel shame for either and those big companies now have no control over what I do, buy or how I live. How many of us can truly, without emotion walk out of their home today and not 'miss' something. What would you miss? Would the things you miss be in anyway practical to your survival? Can you emotionally handle it? If you can't, you've got a lot of work to do if you truly want to be free of this particular conspiracy.

Secondly, why don't we complain more? Yes, I know that almost every big company has a complaint department, but do you use it? How many times have you been infuriated about something a big company did, but never mentioned it? Now I'm not in anyway desiring us all to become insolent winers. I'm not talking of petty complaints that your fries didn't have enough salt on them. I'm talking about the computer programs that didn't work, but you just stopped using it instead of insisting it be fixed. Yes, I know this means a whole lot of headache because many companies still haven't created proper customer service. These go hand in hand, though. If you complain and then complain that you didn't get service for you complaint, that's now two complaints. Did you then complain (as I am) to a public forum, did you go further and create a public action group? Apathy gets us no where and even the Bible tells us that he who asks, receives. Now remember, it didn't say he who asks once receives, it says he who asks with all his heart receives. This means keep knocking until you get satisfaction.

Finally, I educate myself. No where in the world is there more information available than here. There is absolutely no excuse for any adult to not know that 9-11 was a conspiracy if he or she has lived here for any amount of time since then. Any excuse I can think of has it's foundations in the conspiracy I am writing about today. Through education, we can all live free. This education won't come cheep, it will mean that you'll have to shut off that TV in the evening and go to your local board meeting. It will mean that you'll have to use your library every once in a while. It will mean that between the two, your internet connection will become more important than any of your cell phones or the cable TV.


So, if you are tired of all the other conspiracies that involve some big and powerful people, just remember your part in it all. After today will you still covet that new dress or the fancy car? Will you still pay for all your kids cell phones? Will you still go to just any store and purchase pre-manufactured meals without even looking at what's in them? Will your still let them have the power to tell you how to live? I'm going to get really bold and say, sex was never the oldest profession. It was still being given away for free when medicine men and religions were making a really good living off of their healing and psychic gifts. I don't know one story of prostitution that goes as far back as the stories of people giving gifts and offerings to the spiritual leaders and healers. I'm not condemning them, they took advantage of the situation just like every good business man today does. They took advantage of the other conspiracy, the conspiracy we adopt when we choose not to become adults. Adults who are personally responsible for all their own actions and responsible for exactly what happens to them. Are you willing to become an educated adult?

Lorna Bergman
found@thelosttribe.org