Overreach Theory
When States Have to Keep Too Many Balls in the Air
Imagine some of the events in U.S. history were actual conspiracies. I’m not asking to believe this but, hypothetically speaking, imagine Stanley Kubrik faked the Apollo moon landings, the CIA murdered JFK, covid isn’t a virus, Epstein didn’t hang himself, MH17 was blown up by NATO, the Twin Towers were brought down in a controlled demolition, and so on.
What I call “overreach theory” is that condition when states have to keep too many conspiracies afloat. You see, the problem with staging events (terror or historic, or otherwise) is that in order to maintain your state narrative, you have to keep convincing each new generation that the moon landings were real, and illiterates crashed planes into the Towers, and so on.
There comes a point in time, however, when states have accumulated too many conspiracies. And just like a clown trying to keep too many balls in the air, the addition of one more ball or conspiracy must then lead to the collapse of the entire narrative. The clown makes a fool of himself when he drops his balls. The state’s true face is revealed: that of a criminal conspiracy that has been manipulating the masses, perhaps for centuries.
In fact, such a collapsing narrative (due to the overreach) would instantly destroy the cozy worldview of the otherwise ignorant or disinterested masses. All of a sudden, the collapse exposes all the lies but brings forth few new truths. Everything people have come to rely on to build the bedrock of their personal confidence evaporates suddenly.
Such an event shall cause the complete and total psychological breakdown of a people. If your people’s history turns out to be an elaborate fraud, and if your government was not the kind Father or Mother who wanted you to do well in life, and we discover the state was really a diabolical monster that was slowly consuming its people, then how shall the people respond?
They shall respond as rabid dogs. They shall go barking mad.
It is when such an event takes place that new leadership may seize power. Then, a new cycle begins, a new master starts accumulating its conspiracies that it must uphold anew in order to fool a different people. The dawning of a new era but by no means a better era.
I merely wonder, how long the U.S. narrative shall last before it must be dissolved into a new one.