"Now, there's like this subtransmission zone below the third dimension that's just turned over the most horrible things, it's what it resonates to, and it's trying to get up into the third dimension that's just a basic level of consciousness to launch into the next levels."
--Alex Jones
I recently developed a new habit, for laughs, of watching Alex Jones, the politically conservative mega-conspiracy theorist who runs infowars.com. In one of my most lighthearted posts, I want to, for the sake of amusement and humor, point out some of the absurd claims and fallacies of Alex Jones. Get out of the way New World Order, because humanity IS going interstellar! Whoever is dropping gay bombs in tap water really needs to stop turning "the freaking frogs gay!" And those flies landing on Obama really do seem to make the most compelling evidential case possible that he is indeed demonic.
I swear to Poseidon, this fool's proclivity for using logical fallacies is something that has provoked much laughter from me over the past few nights! Fallacy overload!!
https://youtu.be/jgyhT56iF5A
This video of Jones is one of my favorites of him. Conversing with podcast host Joe Rogan, Alex outlines his thoroughly unverifiable beliefs that humans inhabit the fifth or sixth of 12 dimensions, gravity bleeds in through the tension points our computers find in the false hologram that is our universe, there is a subtransmission zone that produces the "most horrible things", and pedophiles supplied with alien knowledge and technology are in control of a supercomputer that converts humanity into a hive mind. It's a damn great video if you want some humor! I'll write out some lengthier quotes (along with the times they appear in the video) that are particularly nonsensical, at least on an epistemological level.
"All the top scientists and billionaires are coming out and saying it is a false hologram, it is artificial. The computers are scanning it and finding tension points where it's artificially projected and gravity is bleeding in to this universe; that's what they call dark matter."
(0:31-0:47)
Here Alex claims that the universe we experience is a hologram. Holograms are immaterial projections, and if the universe is a hologram then the computers used to "detect" this are holograms too. But material bodies and holograms are different substances and can't interact in the way that two physical substances do . . . meaning that because my hands don't phase through whatever I'm touching I have no reason to believe I am in a hologram. Besides, practically any variation of the simulation hypothesis, however logically possible it might be, is totally beyond my ability to verify or falsify, and if Alex Jones is the same type of being that I am and shares my limitations then he has no ability to verify or falsify such claims either. And yet Alex insists that "they're proving it all, it's all coming out." Sure they are.
"Now, there's like this subtransmission zone below the third dimension that's just turned over the most horrible things, it's what it resonates to, and it's trying to get up into the third dimension that's just a basic level of consciousness to launch into the next levels."
(0:56-1:07)
What the fuck is he talking about? I honestly am confused as to what his point even is in some places here. Earlier in the video he says that there are at least 12 distinct dimensions, and shortly after this quote he says that humanity resides in either the fifth of sixth level of consciousness. Unless Alex is a transdimensional being, how would he even be capable of knowing what lies under the "third dimension", if his 12 dimension idea is even correct to begin with? How could he know that humans are in the fifth or sixth level of consciousness? What "horrible things" is he referring to that the subtransmission zone under the third dimension produces? And how could someone with the same human epistemic limitations as me ever prove any of this? This video contains numerous instances of Alex Jones blatantly begging the question and then, in the cases where Joe Rogan presses him for evidence or proof of some kind, Alex just asserts that the evidence is obvious. He does not even try to cite any actual demonstrable evidence, he merely attests that the evidence exists! I've never laughed at a combination of begging the question and appealing to the stone like I have at Alex Jones!
He also claims that "they" are trying to construct an elaborate supercomputer connected to human minds for control purposes where human thoughts create neurons in the computer system. Oh, and there is also a "human counter strike" aiming to stop the "pedophiles and psychic vampires that are in control of this AI system". Because we all know that the pedophiles run important plans the "elites" have for us. Regarding the source of their power, Alex says that an interdimensional being gives them "advanced offworld technology" and "advanced knowledge"--and he explicitly equates this being with Satan. Alex really seems to enjoy asserting arbitrary propositions with absolutely no verifiability through reason or the senses. As for what the Bible actually says about Satan (not as much as some think, actually), nowhere does any book of the Bible detail a plan by Satan to masquerade as some esoteric interdimensional force that provides sophisticated knowledge to pedophiles who want to plug us all in to the supercomputer they built in our false hologram universe. I just wanted to emphasize that the Bible does not teach practically anything he rants about in the video.
Eventually Joe Rogan asks Alex "Where are you getting this from?", and he actually answers with "That's what it is." As if that four word, circular reasoning sentence really amounts to any type of presentation of evidence, much less a logical proof of his claims. He proceeds to explain how he knows all this from "looking at all the data", that every ancient culture has already predicted some of these things, and that things like Ridley Scott's movie Prometheus tell people about the plans of the "elite".
Wow. Just for clarification, I did not say that everything Alex Jones claims in the video I provided a link to is false. It is possible that the cosmos contains 12 dimensions, for example. However, almost everything he says is totally unverifiable.
On a more serious note, rationalism and rationalism alone will create an environment that honors both truth and proper avenues of verifying and falsifying truth claims. People like Alex Jones can only obtain influence over those who neglect critical thinking, ignore logic, and believe things that far exceed the scope of legitimate worldview formation. Alex Jones does not represent either reason or Christianity. Reason and Christianity represent themselves, not the fallacious rants of a biased, question-begging, paranoid radio host.
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