Did You Catch It? My Secret Message?

 

Don’t get me started on conspiracy theories again, I beg of you. I have already suffered enough semi-self-inflicted aneurysms that were we to combine them, the resulting cacophony could be used to jumpstart a Dyson sphere. Did I mention conspiracy theories before? Yes. On a separate occasion, I may have dabbled in a few, however today I want to discuss a particular application apparently used in some conspiracies: secret code. Unless of course you have something better to do?

Cryptography is quite the interesting endeavour in that it challenges the ol’ noodle to think rather broadly about any given text. And I have recently tried my very own hand at hiding various little titbits within lyrics I write in my free time. Too bad I am not sharing them here, I have yet to copyright my work, you vultures.

Casting the attention back to cryptography, one slight issue that has always plagued my astoundingly average intellect regarding conspiracies ripe with accusations of subliminal messaging and secret codes in plain sight: is just that, plain sight. How does it seem logical that these incredibly secret men in secret bunkers in secret locations would risk exposing the KFC secret recipe by releasing their coded messages to the public?

I am far more convinced that IF these sneaky devils exist, they would much rather not have their (even highly encoded) dirty laundry, just out and about in the lake of public domain. The same people that claim such organizations exist, are the same ones that claim to be proficient in decoding incredibly advanced cryptography that has apparently pulled a fast one on even the brightest and anti-authoritarian minds out there. More often than not, these messages discuss plans for world domination (of course). You wouldn’t find a government official’s adult store shopping list scrambled in binary, although I wish they would.

Secret societies have seemingly always been blamed for what’s wrong in the world. Everyone is a free-mason. Celebrities are members of the Illuminati. Reptile royals shedding their skins when it’s time to lay an heir. Ever stop to think that maybe, maybe there are no secrets? This frighteningly incompetent planet is the real, God-honest deal.

Maybe we try to find these hidden sources of unspeakable evil because accepting that we as humans are capable, just seems too hard to believe. Everyone is capable of great things, and terrible things. Secret societies being the newest member among the scapegoats of human turmoil. Second only to demons, and the devil himself. As for me, I rely mostly on what I know: people are people. Genuine instruments of great accomplishment and terrible strife. Elements of quite literally anything that is humanly possible.

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