the basic lies of the universe
Late night television is crowded with ads for pay-per-minute phone numbers you can call to talk to a real psychic, 24 hours a day. For each of those dozen companies to have enough psychics on the phone all day, every day, and be making enough money to launch huge ad campaigns and offer the first 25 minutes of each daily call for free, there must be an entirely ludicrous number of callers. To keep all those people calling and paying, these companies must be hiring an equally ludicrous number of psychics, who are supposedly capable of describing intimate details of your life after just hearing your name.
This is not merely impossible, but clearly insane. There can't really be that many hundreds or thousands of psychics in America, even if somehow all of them are working for these psychic hotlines. But how else would they be able to tell you so many personal details after you just call in and say your name?
Well, you probably called in from your home, so they can find out who you are with a simple caller ID system. Then you told them your name, so they know which resident at that phone number is calling. Now remember, this is the Information Age, and every form you've ever filled out is probably on some computer somewhere. Let's assume that they have access to some of those computers.
Every time you buy something with a credit card, the credit card company and the store you made the purchase at both keep records of the transaction on their computers. Someone could guess a lot about you from how much you spend where, and when. Do you have a drivers' license or any form of state ID? All of that information is in a computer. Lots of companies have the ability to do instant credit-checks by asking a network of computers about your entire financial history. The IRS has all the taxes you've ever paid on a computer. Does the receptionist at your doctor's office have a computer on her desk? The last time you were at a hospital, did you notice how many computers they had at each desk? Your medical records are on computers, too.
So, who would have access to the computers at your credit card companies and banks, the IRS, and your doctor's office? How about the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) or the NSA (No Such Administration)?
Just think about it for a moment. The CIA is getting less funding now that the Soviet Union has fallen apart and government attention is being drawn back to internal problems, like health care. With a well connected database, their operators could have all kinds of information about you as soon as you identify yourself. Then you start talking with this "psychic," and you end up filling in all the details they don't already have. The CIA already wants more information about the random elements in society, the unpredictable people who also happen to be more likely to call a psychic hotline. Not only are they pacifying and controlling and depleting the funds of this unpredictable element, they're getting the information they want, and people are paying them for it. It's such a perfect setup that if the Central Intelligence Agency didn't make up this scam, they must be kicking themselves now for not thinking of it first.
But what about all those celebrities who keep endorsing and advertising these psychics? Creating a believably fake company and making everything seem legitimate enough to convince a few celebrities is childs play for the CIA.
And which is really more likely? Psychic hotline services being a front for the CIA, or ten percent of the American population suddenly being discovered to be psychic enough to see every detail about your life over the phone?
So which would you rather believe in: psychics or conspiracies?
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