The Earth Conspiracy pt 1: The Giant Treespiracy

The state of the world feels a bit overwhelming at the moment… would you agree? Some of these future timelines don’t seem overly appealing:

Depopulation.

Transhumanism.

Perpetual Culture War

Impending Nuclear War.

Climate Catastrophe. 

Bill and Klaus blocking out the sun.

Yes, the darkness (sometimes literal) must continue to be opposed. Nonetheless, when it all starts to get a bit much, where does the conspiracy theorist turn for respite and serenity? 

Well, I am sucker for nostalgia — finding comfort in revisiting the past with fresh eyes. So when I need an escape from the present, I like to go back in time to try and untangle our history. More specifically: I try to go back in time to untangle what the hell happened to our Earth.

Welcome to The Earth Conspiracy: a new Down the Wombat Hole video series exploring different theories about the nature and history of our Plane(t). 

Engaging with The Earth Conspiracy is a bit different than other wombat holes. It relies less on exhaustive research, data crunching and dot-connecting then a willingness to more simply look at the world around us — at what already lies (hiding) in plain sight — in a different way. To reconsider the stories we have attached to different structures, different locations, different symbols and archetypes — and whether those accepted stories might be just a wee bit simplified and/or inverted. 

As such, aesthetics is important (as is substituting snark for whimsy) — presenting existing information in a way that stimulates imagination and emotion (dark arts if ever there were some). These videos will rely heavily on visuals — long shots of landscapes, ancient and existing structures, old photographs and artefacts — and favour overdramatic instrumental music over speech. The better you are able to fully appreciate this imagery as you watch, and the soundtrack as you listen, the more you will get out of the experience. 

There will also be none of the normal divisive conspiracy murk, but only proper wholesome conspiracy: the type that bends your mind and challenges us to believe that history is far more interesting, and the world actually far more amazing, than what we have been lead to believe. Conspiracies that you should be happy to believe in, in other words.

Because I do like to think that for every nefarious conspiracy theory doing the rounds, there is another wholesome, mind-bending and awe-inspiring wombat hole waiting to be found. 

And where better to start than my personal favourite: that our Earth used to be filled with giant trees. Not only that: but that we can still see the remains of these giant trees today, in structures that we have mistaken as mountains. 

Oh boy. Sounds ridiculous? Maybe it is. But don’t decide until you have seen for yourself.