Blaming The Space Lasers
Why people choose to believe in the far-fetched over what stares them in the face
Wildfires continue to devastate Southern California, leaving thousands homeless and causing billions in property loss. They may end up as the costliest natural disaster in American history. There are obvious reasons why such a foreseeable event proved catastrophic. Government incompetence, left-wing priorities, and the third worldization of the Golden State can all be blamed for the disaster.
The Left, instead, chooses to blame climate change and insists Donald Trump, who is not president, is somehow responsible because he questions the climate dogma. California’s leaders who failed to prevent the wildfire are blameless simply because they believe in climate change. This nonsense was to be expected. Every natural disaster in the world is blamed on climate change, and the solution is always to enact liberal policies.
Others have decided to believe an even more fantastical theory for the wildfires. Instead of climate change or DEI leaders, the real culprit is a space laser controlled by nefarious forces. This space laser also caused the Maui wildfires in 2023. The only thing that saves homes from the cruel weapon is the color blue, which is apparently immune to the burning heat.
Any big event is going to inspire conspiracy theories. Whether it’s a bridge collapsing in Baltimore or the war in Ukraine, people are going to make up wild claims. It’s just the nature of things. However, thanks to the internet and the new state of social media, these wild claims now gain a larger audience. Reports of space lasers or mysterious rods in the sky attracted massive engagement on X and on other platforms. These theories find a receptive audience among ordinary conservatives. Many within our base seem incapable of believing a natural disaster is just a natural disaster, and incompetent officials bungled the response. It must be much more than that.
The conspiratorial view is both more entertaining and comforting than reality. Many people turn to news and political content not to be informed but to be titillated. They want excitement from what they’re watching and reading. Delivering a fact-based analysis showcasing how California’s leaders failed to build reservoirs, blew money on left-wing initiatives, and welcomed a lot of homeless who are prone to set fires is dull. It’s a lot more entertaining to insist Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, or Barack Obama made a call to deploy the space laser against LA for … some reason. The motive doesn’t really matter here. What matters is that it sounds like an idea ripped straight from a cartoon villain. Magneto would definitely use a space laser to destroy California homes for no reason–why wouldn’t Klaus Schwab do the same?
These hairbrained theories are a huge hit with certain audiences. Not only is it more exciting than the truth, it allows the believer to think that they have forbidden knowledge that the government wants to hide from you. This gives them the feeling of being smarter than the sheeple who blindly believe whatever the media tells them. Obviously, the media and government lie to us a lot, but that is no reason to believe in complete nonsense just to spite them. It’s a thankless task to try to convince these people to not believe in the far-fetched. The forbidden knowledge about sky rods satisfies the desire to differentiate yourself from your duped peers.
Even though it may horrify people that the powers that be frequently use space lasers and weather machines against the people, it’s also a comforting idea. It tells people that someone is in control. All that needs to be done is to change who’s in control and the world will be a much happier place. With the right authorities, the weather machine would be used to calm storms rather than direct hurricanes to Trump Country. The alternative to the belief that evil rulers control the weather and wildfires is that no one is in control. That’s a scary thought for many. They don’t like the idea that random chance things beyond their control cause random events. It’s too chaotic to imagine. Conspiracy theories put competent humans in the driver’s seat. Chaos is dispelled, and order is restored. The problem is that the wrong people are in charge.
The new social media environment basically encourages conspiracy theories to spread. X incentivizes users to post absolute slop to earn more money. X’s revenue share is a smart idea, but it also has the downside of encouraging some of the dumbest content imaginable. As long as clicks are earned, influencers don’t care how it’s accomplished. The most insane content gets the most impressions. Two years ago, Twitter was awash with claims that NFL player Damar Hamlin had been replaced with a clone. When the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed, content farmers blamed everyone from the Saudis to the Obamas. They balmed the Maui wildfires on Oprah Winfrey, who somehow had a connection to the notorious space laser.
Hurricane Helene was arguably the peak of influencer-mania. Influencers just made up shit to throw red meat to their audiences. There were claims the government used a weather machine to direct the storm to Western North Carolina to suppress the Trump vote. Locals formed militias to battle FEMA agents who were trying to put them in prison camps and confiscate their property. These same militias also “disappeared” Hispanic gangbangers with no one noticing. Helene was an absolute disaster for the people of Appalachia. But sharing completely fake information for clicks isn’t the way to highlight it. The federal government’s response was a travesty, and the fact that the affected area was largely white and conservative likely played a role in the feds’ indifference. That’s outrageous enough–there’s no need to invent prison camps and gang wars in the mountains.
But the latter stories are more likely to generate impressions and dollars for unscrupulous posters. So they’re doled out to the hungry audience wanting entertainment instead of truth.
These crazy theories about weather machines and lasers distract people from the inconvenient facts of these disasters. Oprah didn’t cause the Maui wildfires. A local official who focused more on “water equity” and “indigenous science” rather than proper fire prevention is a more responsible culprit. Similar stupidity has resulted from California’s inferno. The Key Bridge collapse was likely the result of incompetence of the third worlders on the colliding ship.
These are angles the mainstream media won’t discuss, and the powers that be would prefer us to not know. They reveal uncomfortable truths about our diverse society, the dangers of left-wing governance, and the problems of globalization. The people would vote against the liberal policies the system favors if they knew these policies leave them at the mercy of Mother Nature and municipal idiocy.
The powers that be would much rather have us blame space lasers. It’s so far-fetched and so fantastical that many would think there’s no solution to it. Just keep posting away and finding any form of amusement rather than trying to change the world. That’s perfect for the status quo.
The popularity of these idiotic theories doesn’t show the people “waking up” or turning against the system. It merely demonstrates the reign of mindless entertainment.