Setting fire to the 5G mast, the perpetrator clearly thought they had achieved something worthy of recording and posting online. The world had to know that 5G was a danger to the survival of humankind and how best to deal with that threat.
There are dozens of such videos on the Internet.
The UK has seen almost 100 attacks on 5G masts in the last three months. The number of incidents peaked over the Easter weekend. It seems there’s nothing so glorious as an Easter egg hunt followed by trying to tear down the local tech infrastructure.
The reasons for torching a piece of new tech infrastructure could vary, but right now the main reason is to stop the spread of COVID-19. The 5G masts, also known as ‘towers’, are spreading dangerous electromagnetic waves all over the country, according to the conspiracists.
These dangerous waves spread coronavirus apparently. The conspiracists claim no country with 5G has had a major outbreak of COVID-19, except Iran would be one striking example where the virus has devastated a country with no 5G masts.
Meanwhile countries like South Korea – where the 5G network is already in place – have managed to contain and control the spread of the virus much more effectively than a country like the UK which is only just building up its 5G infrastructure.
Sadly, the role of conspiracy theories is not a matter of empirical inquiry. It’s about values and the object of the truth claim is the kind of society we inhabit and what it should be like. It’s no coincidence that conspiracy theorists are almost always very conservative people.
The conspiracy theory of history requires scapegoats, whether it’s the Rothschilds, the Illuminati, the Freemasons or even the Jesuits. The fear of an external agent interrupting the natural course of events is itself deeply conservative.
Apparently, the pandemic couldn’t have happened had it not been for China promoting 5G around the world. If the world just stayed the same, and if we could prevent outside forces from changing things, we would be fine. So conspiracy theories are about more than mass paranoia.
This article can be read in full at The Battleground.
Joshua White 