Shh,
it's a secret!
This
little missive is all about the wonderful world of Conspiracies and
all of the people who believe in them with all their little hearts no
matter how many times they are disproved or how many mountains of
evidence is piled against them. Conspiracies are nothing knew and
have probably been around as long as people have been able to
communicate. I believe that people believed Noah's Ark was all part
of a conspiracy to corner the market on seafood or that people
believed that Hannibal's elephants were part of some conspiracy to
create new “stealth weapons.” So let's get to talking about
them.
First,
my list of the top ten conspiracies!
The Moon Landing was faked!
There were multiple assassins involved in
JFK's assassination!
Bobby Kennedy was killed as part of the same
plot!
9/11 was actually an American plot!
Obama is a Muslim Terrorist who was not born
in the US!
Roswell, New Mexico was the secret crash
landing spot for alien ships!
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and were
primed to use them!
The vapor trails from military aircraft
contain experimental chemical weapons!
There are top secret military bases already on
the moon and that is why the government is stalling a
return to the moon.
Professional Wrestling is faked!
Okay I'll admit I threw that last one in just for the
fun of it cause everyone knows Wrassling is real, but my point here
is that people will always believe what they want to believe no
matter how much facts and information prove them wrong. It is just
one of those quirks of human nature that is probably a combination of
our believe in our own superiority and the fact 90% of the people in
the world pretty much believe everything they see on TV or read on
the internet.
SURF”S UP, DOOD!
I have had this conversation with several people over
the past few days on several different areas of contest, but this
little blurb is not about any one conspiracy current or past. It is
about the need people have to believe in them. I truly believe it
all boils down to faith. Not necessarily in a Supreme Being or as I
like to call him, Big Happy Sky Man, but just faith in general.
People seem to have this incredible need to believe in grand plots
and designs. They want to believe that things aren't just randomly
happening and that mysterious forces are working in secret to do
astounding things. Hence conspiracies.
I hear people say that there a lot more conspiracy
theorists out there now than there have ever been before and that may
be so to a limited extent. However, for the most part the sudden
upsurge in these conspiracies is mostly due to things like the
internet since now it is insanely easy for one group to make contact
with others of a similar mindset. Hells, do a web search for
conspiracy groups. You will be amazed at what you find.
Okay no it doesn't fit the
article,
but I like bunnies.
I guess what little point I am trying to make here is
simple. Believe what you want no matter how odd it is, but always
make your decisions and beliefs based on as much accurate information
that you can get. Never read a headline or an article and say, “Aha!
I knew all along!” When I listed the conspiracies at the
beginning of this piece, I didn't Poo Poo any of them. I actually
believe in a couple of them (No Wrassling isn't one of them). I am
not saying which ones, but rest assured that I am a conspiracy nut
just like so many others. The only difference between me and most of
the others is that I find my own facts, not get fed regurgitated
pablum by people like Limbaugh and his ilk. Remember it's your
opinion, use it wisely.
The truth is out there
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