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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.58,0:00:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi there, my name’s Kirby Ferguson. I am the creator of This is Not a Conspiracy Theory.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.80,0:00:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay tuned to the end of this video for further information about how this series works and how you can subscribe.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.30,0:00:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright. Here were go.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.77,0:00:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people of the internet present
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.67,0:00:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A documentary feature delivered in episodes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.04,0:00:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,November 1963.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.12,0:00:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An assassination.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.28,0:00:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.45,0:00:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that of his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.30,0:00:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was this killing that permanently sealed JFK’s murder in mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.04,0:00:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conclusion of the official government investigation was simple yet unsatisfying:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.45,0:00:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a disaffected loner with a cheap rifle killed the president... by himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.74,0:00:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Counter narratives started to appear.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.70,0:01:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amateur sleuths tried to follow the trajectories of the bullets backwards, into the shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.61,0:01:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their methods were a combination of lawyer, detective and outsider.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.55,0:01:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This style of reasoning became known as the conspiracy theory.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.10,0:01:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trust in government plummeted during the years of scandal and upheaval that followed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.24,0:01:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, the president himself was implicated in a spying scandal and the fears of conspiracy thinkers seemed confirmed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.24,0:01:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conspiracies were real.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.19,0:01:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the research into the Kennedy assassination was failing to develop a convincing alternative scenario.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.66,0:01:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, it had splintered into countless, conflicting variations.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.63,0:01:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on the outskirts of popular culture, new and more outrageous ideas were developing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.86,0:01:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flaws of the conspiracy theory were becoming obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.28,0:02:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And its logic could lead to preposterous conclusions.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.34,0:02:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the stories the US government is concealing under top security
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.21,0:02:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flying saucers from another world
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.51,0:02:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and alien bodies, cryogenically suspended in huge freezers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.36,0:02:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The term conspiracy was soon an insult.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.17,0:02:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why the fuck does everything have to be a conspiracy, huh?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.90,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet the conspiracy theory would continue to grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its influence absorbed into popular culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.18,0:02:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It blurred into the realm of science fiction as claims of alien abductions and cover-ups multiplied.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.51,0:02:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This happened. If you believe it, that’s alright.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.30,0:02:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don’t believe it, I don’t care.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.76,0:02:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The TV series The X Files channeled all these themes of paranoia
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.23,0:02:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and beamed them into American living rooms every Sunday evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.30,0:02:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Oliver Stone’s film JFK brought the Kennedy conspiracy theory back into the mainstream.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.10,0:02:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we’re through the looking glass here people.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.69,0:02:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White is black.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.97,0:02:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And black is white.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.39,0:03:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was a new form of media, the World Wide Web,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.34,0:03:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brought the conspiracy theory to its widest audience ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.46,0:03:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the conspiracy theory became an online sensation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.72,0:03:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it’s maintained a conspicuous presence in online culture ever since.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.29,0:03:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 2013, we'd entered a new era of suspicion and paranoia.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.80,0:03:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trust in government hovered at levels even lower than the Nixon era.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.21,0:03:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite their persistently poor reputation, belief in conspiracy theories flourished.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.90,0:03:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Sixty-three percent of registered voters believe at least one political conspiracy theory...” Conspiracy Theories Prosper, Dan Cassino and Krista Jenkins
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.02,0:03:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conspiracy theory is something more than just paranoia from the fringes of society.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.76,0:03:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a dramatic expression of a uniquely modern anxiety:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.77,0:04:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sensation that you are trapped within the invisible design of a greater power.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.32,0:04:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you know you can’t explain.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.80,0:04:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.97,0:04:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a splinter in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.85,0:04:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States in particular these fears have deep roots,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.77,0:04:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roots that tangle down into the core of the American identity and beyond.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.04,0:04:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back through the centuries, past America’s formation
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.22,0:04:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and right down to the bedrock psychology of the conspiracy theory:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.49,0:04:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the projection of human intentions upon complex events.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.16,0:04:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ancient Greeks once saw lightning bolts and imagined the fury of Zeus.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.13,0:04:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we later developed better understanding of the forces of nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.38,0:04:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are now beginning to understand the complexity behind our own society.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.44,0:04:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are confronting powers more daunting than a shadowy elite,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.87,0:04:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powers that we struggle to comprehend with the minds we’ve evolved.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.85,0:04:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t get it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.21,0:04:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then help me. Please, I need to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.73,0:05:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.50,0:05:04.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody is in charge.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.59,0:05:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we are now realizing is that we are guided, constrained,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.55,0:05:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even controlled by the systems we have made,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.27,0:05:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the rules, institutions and technologies we ourselves created.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.82,0:05:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these systems have no ideology,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.05,0:05:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have no ambition, they are not greedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.99,0:05:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are not good and they are not evil.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.65,0:05:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are simply not like us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.25,0:05:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Not a Conspiracy Theory
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.52,0:05:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A serial documentary about the forces that shape us
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.32,0:05:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the creator of “Everything is a Remix”
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.94,0:05:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Written & Directed by Kirby Ferguson. Original Score by John Woods. Fonts by The Font Bureau
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Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.48,0:06:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There you have it, there’s the premise of This is Not a Conspiracy Theory.
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Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.05,0:06:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, so the format of This is Not a Conspiracy Theory is a little unusual but it is basically simple.
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