Healthy skepticism is a good thing. I'm a very skeptical person. Especially when it comes down to accepting the "official story" on any breaking event. Not that I always believe that I'm immediately being lied to, or that the "Illuminati" is responsible. Only that people always have an agenda. And conspiracies do exist. If they didn't, we wouldn't need fraud investigators...

But it seems like most people don't want to question anything, and that's just as dangerous as accepting everything as a "conspiracy theory". Many of my friends like to poke fun when I question an official narrative, and they blow it off with the usual, "Uh Oh, here comes "Conspiracy Joe" again". And it's all done in jest, but that's the reason I finally just started to convince them that I believe in every conspiracy ever, no matter how ridiculous...

Wanna talk about the moon landing? It was faked!
Flat Earth? Oh, you betcha...
Hitler suicide? Naw, he was living in Venezuela until 1973.

Of course I don't believe any of these. But it's a hell of a lot of fun to try to convince my friends that I do... The point is, I'd rather be labeled a "crazy conspiracy theorist" by my peers and still look at everything through a critical lens, than be accepted as "normal" and simply accept everything at face value...