Conspiracy theories, whether you love them, hate them or ignore them... One thing is sure, some of them tend to be extremely intriguing.
On the surface, there seems to be to two main types of conspiracy theories.
Those that sound like they were scripted for people who are easily impressionable due their tendency of over-simplification and their penchant towards the boogeyman story archetype.
And those that came about as a consequence of connecting two (or more) tangible elements together, regardless of accuracy.
One question comes to mind:
Can certain conspiracy theories be proven right?
Well, not only they can, but they have been proven accurate on countless occasions.
Just Google Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be true and see what happens.
And by the way, you might wanna grab some popcorn, some nice drink, lean back in the sofa and enjoy the show.
There might be some mind-blowing stuff waiting for you in there.
My personal favorite is the one where they drug people with LSD and drop them in brothels surrounded by hookers, just to see how they react.
You can’t make that up!
Now I know, there is no shortage of conspiracy theories that could make Stephen King stay up at night, crying at the skies and wondering who the hell could have so much imagination.
We've all heard those, I'm sure.
And on the opposite side of the spectrum, we find a different kind of theories that actually sound quite rational and logical. But here’s the crazy thing, they are also frown upon nonetheless.
One can speculate but the reason they are frown upon is because they may taint the image of politicians, or some sort of ruling class.
“The limits of debate in this country are established before the debate even begins, and everyone else is marginalized and made to seem like some sort of disloyal person, or a “cook”.
There’s a word! See, they made that. Something that should not be even entertained for a minute that powerful people might get together and have a plan.” ― George Carlin.
The interesting thing with conspiracy theories is that very few people that can connect two things together, the problem is that crazy people have that ability too.
So one day you hear a theory that the Lyndon Johnson’s administration may or may not have torpedoed the USS Maddox to sway the public’s support and bomb Vietnam into oblivion.
That’s one type of theories.
And then another day, you’d hear that Rihanna is a shape-shifting reptilian illuminati priestess that doubles down as the 66th bride of the antichrist who is hiding in plain sight while dancing Work, Work, Work, Work…
Under her umbrella.
The thing is, one type of these two theories actually get declassified from time to time.
So the question inevitably becomes, why do we apply the same label to two things that have nothing to do with each other?
And since we’re at it, do we have to apply labels to ideas and thoughts to begin with?
Are we putting everyone in the same basket by doing so?
Feel free to share your thoughts below.