The other day I briefly mentioned the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH 370 a dozen or so years ago, and by implication got on board with the idea that the pilot disappeared it on purpose.

Now comes a guy named Ashton Forbes, with a very different theory.

The link is to a recent clip from the Jimmy Dore Show, and that interview has a nominally more interesting Part One.

I’m inclined to do the easy thing, which is to note with a smile how Jimmy is turning into Art Bell, and leave it at that.

But …

Although I think the theories on offer here do sound pretty half-baked and bogus, I have to note that the popularized explanations regarding the physics are really every bit as bad.

Zero-Point Energy Demystified (from PBS, 7 years ago)

Is the whack-job conspiracy guy more or less right than the calm polished public television professional?

I don’t know. You don’t know.

And that is true in many, many cases, and by many, many metrics.

Yes, I’m thinking about anything to do with COVID, but also about the wave of assassinations in the Sixties, the Twin Towers and Building Seven, and a whole lot of other things that break down just the same along cultural party lines.

Including the fact that the term “conspiracy theory” was itself a conspiracy promulgated by that one three-letter agency when we were young.

We know so very little about what is Real, in the modern overcivilized world.

And for the most part, the powers that be are quite happy to keep it that way.

As far as I can see, the only way out of this double-bind is to stop listening with credulity to anyone’s version, and sink within to listen to what our best heart and inner cogitational sight tell us.

Mostly, I trust myself.

I can’t say the same for the Experts, no matter how well-credentialed or well-dressed they seem to be.

And as for “trusting Science”, and related cop-outs, I’m sorry, but that’s nothing but a bullshit begging of the question, and a blind appeal to authority, every bit as nonsensical as believing in the word of any god or any holy scripture you care to name.

You shall know the Truth?

Well … er … maybe.

And the Truth will set you Free?

Deeply unlikely.

In my frail human judgment.

Which is all there is to go on ever.