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I use to think most conspiracy theories were outlandish garbage...
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Most are.
I LOVE a good well made conspiracy. Like fiction, they require a large investment in research and composition.
But most conspiracy theories are just that; fiction.
Just because I love them doesn’t mean I believe them, but the best ones are difficult to disprove.
One of the first signs that a conspiracy theory is fiction, to me, is to spot the socio-political motivation behind them. I don’t mean to open a can of worms here (though I am sure I am) but the motivations behind truthers are blatantly obvious. Most of them at the time either hated Bush or anti-interventionalists (something I am mostly sympathetic to) but I remember distinctly watching the burning towers in the company break-room and telling co-workers that those buildings were going to collapse. It wasn’t a bold prediction, as someone with higher education that included courses in architecture and structural design, I knew that that the steel in most modern high rises are coated in fire retardant materials that were never designed to withstand a long high temperature burn of jet-fuel. It doesn’t take a genius to have predicted the collapse nor a genius to recognize that most of the people in the media and internet who were latching on to demolition and missile theories had a desire for them to be true.
TBH, I’m surprised I never became a consumer of Alex Jones or Infowars, but I just don’t seek out conspiracy theories anymore. Creepy pastas are great too if you have free time and find the good ones