Nashville outsider country artist JP Harris just dropped his new single, “Take Off Your Tinfoil Hats”. It’s an indictment of our always connected world on the internet and a funny look at how conspiracy theories just keep spreading everywhere. He dropped it on Instagram recently and it went viral with over 250k views and Pink reposted it! With conspiracists rampaging through the country this is definitely a song for the times!
Here’s what JP had to say about the song!
It seems as we become ever more connected, with an infinite wormhole of information at our fingertips, that as a species we are rapidly losing our ability to discern truth from fiction, our most valuable learned skill of critical thinking, at what could almost be called the genetic level. Our technology is evolving faster than we are.
It is sad to say that the precedent to believe the most outlandish conspiracies has been long established; MK ULTRA, the Tuskegee Experiments, the CIA’s counterintelligence program, and countless other declassified examples of shadowy governmental behavior give people the thread of doubt they need to latch onto something they can fight for.
And with very few legal consequences enforced or even in place by the Federal Communications Commission for spreading false information, the Kremlin-style “Fake News” label and shock-jock reporting have emerged as the only allegedly-trustworthy reporting for those right of center, steering an enormous headcount of Americans away from balanced and factual reporting. Can’t we just change the slogan to “Make Conspiracies Believable Again”?!”
