Fear & Loathing In The Truth Movement

People have always had a fascination with conspiracies. Things that don't add up in the official story will cause people to search for the truth. For a long time, UFO's and the JFK assassination topped the list. Gradually, that led to distrust of governments and corporations, and it escalated in September of 2001 with what happened in New York.
Two people who were saying things on their talk shows months prior to September of 2001 were William Cooper and Alex Jones. Cooper even named the man he knew would get blamed for the coming attack. He was killed on November 5th that year, after years of talking about cover ups and conspiracies.

Suddenly, this left Alex Jones. Alex wasn't affiliated with any militia groups and seemed to come out of nowhere, but he built up an empire through the internet that helped take him to well over 100 radio stations. He also made movie appearances and guest spots on radio and TV shows.

His loud commentary of recent events rubs many people the wrong way, freaks out others and is just preaching to the choir for those who believe things are not as we are being told. One criticism of Jones is that his empire is more of a business now than a truth movement.

Over the years, he's been right on some predictions and wrong on others, but he projects as a very passionate man who is sincere in what he believes and reports. However, he is hardly running a small business now. In fact, it is becoming more like the CNN of the so called "truth" movement.

He gets criticized for making money selling supplements, water filters and other things and is said to be making a lot of money. Is that a bad thing? I don't see it as inherently bad to make money reporting the alternative news. It takes money to pay the bills.

However, this is a news operation that has several people on staff to a point where Jones himself doesn't host his video news program most of the time and is taking frequent days off from his radio show as well. This again doesn't mean it's a bad thing, but it highlights how this Infowars program is a business.

You can run a big business that is said to be looking for the truth, but it still takes lots of money to run it. And, herein lies the problem. At times, the truth may not be good for business, and promoting fear may be better for business.

I wouldn't suggest people tune out to Jones or anybody else, but they should be careful about falling into the trap of fear over what may be coming. There are theories of what may happen, but we can only prepare for life in our own area of the world.

A talk show host won't have all the answers, but they can be there, much like a televangelist, to tell you what you want to hear and give you comfort. I'm not so sure that's a good thing. Plus, a show that is here to tell you how bad everything is certainly isn't going to promote the good things happening too much. It's not good for business.