Do you ever wonder why things are the way they are? Why do people promise one thing and do something completely different? Does the world really work the way we think or the way people say it does, or is there something else actually going on? If there is something else going on, how can we identify it and reason about it to the point where we really think we do know what is going on?
This blog is not about Conspiracy Theories, but it may seem like it from time to time. No, I do not think there are alien bodies and spacecraft hidden in Roswell New Mexico - but I have no basis to disprove it either. Such thought only really has entertainment value.
The name hidden-agenda.blogspot.com was taken so I had to settle on latent-agenda.blogspot.com which is not as catchy. The point of a hidden agenda is that it is hidden, so any reasoning you try to make about it can really only be indirect. But you can reason about it and make theories that can actually be proven ultimately - good journalists and law enforcement officials do this all the time. One of the most successful principles they use is "follow the money."
In some cases a not only is a hidden agenda hidden, but no-one has actually defined the agenda - rather the agenda is simply a way to describe a pattern of behavior by a group of people that is similar and not necessarily coordinated. For example: there are many people who pretend to be politicians and seem to have similar campaigns, but they are in fact using the political system and media to increase the 'brand value' of whatever they are really selling - such as Sarah Palin and Donald Trump in recent times. There is no book on "Political Scams for Dummies" nor are the behaviors of such people necessarily coordinated, but it is quite likely when Donald Trump realized how Sarah Palin was using politics to increase her "Sarah Palin" brand and her celebrity success, he might have just copied her behavior too: no conspiracy, no agenda, just coalescent ambitions.
If you really do like conspiracy theories you might like this blog too. If you have an open mind and really want to explore how thing really may work, then you are my target audience. If you are an intellectual dweeb like me and like phrases like "coalescent ambitions" then that is just frosting on the cake.
