Why I don’t follow Alex Jones
This has been something I’ve wanted to get off my chest for a while since a lot of people I’ve met seem to follow him like sycophants… and please if anyone disagrees with me tell me why I am wrong.
I don’t like Alex Jones, even if he does speak some truth, I don’t think he is a very ideal leader of the anti new world order movement or whatever you want to call it.
First off, he is a religious nut. I mean come on: he claims to fight against conspiracies / widely believed myths yet he buys into one of the biggest of them all Christianity and he uses the most obscure reasoning to justify it. He comes across as very anti-science in general by talking about how we need to stop the scientific dictatorship from taking over, and calling Darwin an evil man & linking him to the Nazi’s. He doesn’t even believe in evolution. He believes in intelligent design. I recall him saying “the theory of evolution” with disdain in his voice during his movie End Game (as if it hasn’t been pretty much proven as a fact at this point) He is not just a moderate Christian, he is a fundamentalist Christian with some pretty extreme views ranging from everything from his pro life stance to an open hatred towards homosexuals among other things .
Plus he doesn’t even believe in man made climate change even though the scientific community / evidence pretty conclusively supports it. He seems to be against any steps to reduce carbon / pollution, such as treaties between nations, since from his paranoia filled point of view the whole green movement is just another plot by the elite to have more control over us and make us pay higher taxes . What does he expect us to believe that basically the entire body of scientists who study climate change and have recommended that these changes be put into place for the good of the world / humanity, have been bought off by the elite and instructed to lie to us? yea right, like that’s believable. How can anyone actually buy into the rhetoric that excessive carbon is actually a good thing when the forests & and oceans that absorb it are dieing?
As for the whole 911 thing i don’t think there is enough to conclude that it was an “inside job”, or the Zionists. or the lizard people were behind it or whatever… In fact the scientific / skeptic community for the most part doesn’t buy it.. Skeptics Magazine as well as Popular Mechanics even did whole issues refuting truther claims… even Ron Paul who most of the truthers support for president doesn’t buy into it… I think as I’ve heard many people say all ready: that whole thing was basically a big distraction from the really important things that are going on under are noses having to do with people’s rights being stripped away more and more every day. I do fully support an investigation though, better yet an independent investigation, because you know that there will still be coverups if they investigate themselves. I deffinitely don’t believe we have the full story behind what happened on 911. I’m also not in anyway saying that there aren’t people controlling things behind the scenes who aren’t using events like 911 and climate change to take advantage of people and take away their rights either. These people will use threats real & imaginary to further their own goals…
Another thing I feel is important to point about about Alex Jones is that he conducts himself like someone who is full of rage, even mentally unstable. Shouting in peoples faces with a megaphone like a lunatic doesn’t do a hell of a lot of good for your cause I would think. What it does do is cause average people to look at you and just write you off and all your beliefs off as loony. Why doesn’t he actually try having rational conversations with these people?, and get them on video tape, interview them, try to trip them up and catch them in there lies. Wouldn’t that serve your cause more instead of screaming in every ones face phrases like “we are not your cattle!, death to the new world order! we are not your cattle!” like a crazy person. Maybe he is justified sometimes, but he should know that average people see this kind of behavior as mental. Or how about an instance on a recent show of his where he shouted something about being a chimp who was warning all the the chimps that danger was coming, and started jumping up and down shouting “ooh ooh ahh ahh” repeatedly… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyNISU_ocOI
I am also questioning this whole libertarian philosophy that these guys seem to promote… Maybe I am ignorant and I don’t know enough about it but If the economy were totally free market, wouldn’t it lead to the rich getting even richer and the poor getting even poorer and the poor and middle classes being even more oppressed than they are now? Seems to make logical sense to me. I can’t speak as an American, I know the hole has been dug pretty deep for them unfortunately, and perhaps they need drastic solutions, but as a Canadian i like my social programs and my government run healthcare system etc… and I know I wouldn’t want to lose that. Maybe the new American healthcare bill is flawed and written by the insurance companies, but that doesn’t automatically mean that the whole idea of a publicly run healthcare system is necessarily bad.
So for these reasons and more I am puzzled why anyone would want to follow this guy…. He does make some very valid points about people running things behind the scenes, and generally screwing over / slowly taking rights away from the common man. Also he makes good points about both parties in the U.S. being almost the same thing these days and neither of them are really serving the people. The fact that politicians are bought off by the special interests that finance their campaigns, and the system needs to be changed should be something that is fairly obvious for everyone to see by now. At least he is doing some good by getting people to question there own beliefs and try to uncover what is really going on, but it scares me when i see people taking his word like it’s the gospel, especially when he actually really believes in the gospel. Also, after watching this guy for a little while I’m beginning to think that he just automatically opposes anything that either the government or the general scientific community is behind. No matter what it is he will find a way to paint it as a conspiracy, because that’s what he does, that’s how his paranoia filled mind works.
When I have a conflict about whether something is true or not I always base my decision on what the majority scientific view is or what the majority of people in that field say, based on what the evidence says… not on what some arrogant megalomaniacal douche who doesn’t have any credentials scientific or otherwise says. Because he is not a trustworthy source I don’t consider it worth while to even bother watching his movies anymore personally, since I know that sprinkled amount all of the truth he says are big chunks of bullshit and I honestly don’t have time you investigate every outrageous claim he might make, I’d rather stick with sources that I know to be somewhat trustworthy, since he has all ready demonstrated himself to be untrustworthy… I have also seen evidence of him taking things out of context ton purpose in order to skew the truth / back up the point he is making much the same as other conspiracy theorists do in their movies. Once and awhile I will check out his radio show for comedy, or because someone links it and actually check out some of the stuff he is talking about. Sometimes it has value…
I do believe that he is dangerous man though, do to all of the influence he holds and because there are a lot of people out there who will automatically take anything he says as the undisputed truth.
PS. The guys voice is like sand paper on the ears, I realize that this is a trivial complaint and has no bearing on the content of what he is saying but his angry thick growling accented voice makes him very hard to listen to continuously, almost torturous.
Some more of Alex Jones and his wacky antics if you have some time to kill:(It really is quite amusing to see how worked up he gets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAiD2k8rNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8FUHVLHzVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNjGS-qt6KQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGFw3hY20lM
