Today we are going to discuss conspiracies. It is a very interesting topic overall and I will hardly touch on it here. Mainly just sharing how I think about them in general.
There is a subset of people, and I'm sure you've met a few, who are caught up with conspiracies. They think the Illuminati, the Masons, little green men, and the Loch Ness Monster are running the world. It is really easy to just to dismiss them and view them as cranks.
However, despite their terrible representatives, conspiracies are actual things. Maybe the president isn't a lizard man, but somebody had to plan and attempt the coup in Turkey. Someone shot JFK. Conspiracies exist and they do do things. So categorically dismissing them offhand is intellectually lazy and also potentially false.
Now at this point, you may think I am getting good at making tin foil hats. However, there is a second piece of this. How I react to them. Unless the content of the conspiracy impacts me very directly I usually ignore them.
To explain, if the Illuminati really is running the world and directing the flow of world affairs, how does that affect me directly? Not a lot. Also, even if it was, what am I going to be able to do about it? Nothing. They choose presidents for crying out loud so I certainly am not going to be able to rid the world of them.
So even if the president is the head Mason of the Illuminati's lizard man division I am not going to worry about it.
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