Whenever my oldest daughter decides that she needs a dose of family to recharge herself for the grind, she comes over to gladly assume the role of chief antagonist.
Yesterday was such an occasion, but it felt like old times because it was them versus me again. Siding with anyone but dad is common fair, but children become adults with ideas of their own. If they take sides just because of pressure, there's therapy for such things.
Maybe mom, an eternal skeptic, has had more influence than I realized, but I'm of a mind that says they all are part of a bigger, growing group of government conspiracy skeptics.
In case you are wondering, I didn't win this one, but I did force the ring leader to acknowledge that she did not know what the mission might be. If she was Libertarian I am certain she would have been better able to articulate a response. To my Libertarian friend/s, you've got one on the line, but you will need to bring her in carefully. The politically distrustful behave much like feral cats.
We ended our heated exchange with the acceptance that, even if "they" do exist, they might be functioning for our benefit (at least in their minds).
You know! Like the Wizard of Oz. Good ole Oz became a laughable part of my argument in fact. I blamed the Wizard for our natural compulsion to expect there to be a "man behind the curtain". As it turns out, only the younger Brewer realized that I wasn't coming up with some revolutionary concept that had never been discussed regarding this epic film.
Unknowingly, she confirmed the nugget of thought that gave me an advantage in the battle, even if not a victory in the never ending conspiracy theory war that grips America....and the Brewers. WE the people simply don't want to believe that WE the people could be responsible for this mess. Blaming the man behind the curtain or anyone other than ourselves is a reasonable reaction, but an immature decision.
Reasonable people act unreasonably all the time. It should be reasonable for all of us to be more skeptical of everything, so I accept that I could be the misguided here. Our government has done programs and secret dealings for years only to be discovered long after they've concluded.
....And that is the key word. DISCOVERED.
My one problem with the Wizard of Oz mentality is that the Wizard was eventually discovered. For a truly successful secret society to have survived, it would have to be run by any organization other than our dysfunctional government, or this is the first successful program ever, and it is comprised of apolitical mutes. All others need not apply.
No one has any family member who wanted out, or challenged the direction and went Snowden? EVER?
On the other hand, has anyone (you/me) ever decided that this mess is too big to stand in a long election line? We might be under the control of a secret society, but it is more likely that we are just caught in a spell of our own creation.
An unbreakable spell cast by the ultra secret Wizard of Us.
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