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Conspiracy Theories: Entertainment Since Day One

Take a dive down the rabbit hole with me, if you will.

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Conspiracy Theories: Entertainment Since Day One
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Life is a grand place filled with spectacular forests, amazing wildlife, remarkable feats of ingenuity and lizard people. Breath it in. Don’t let go of any of it. Take in all that beautiful landscape you walk by every day. Admire the squirrel scurrying up the oak to get that extra tasty acorn. See the birds roaming free in the air on a summer morning when they dive down to get their worm. Participate in the action of listening in on the homeless man down the street wearing a tinfoil hat yelling about the government trying to mind control the American population into fighting the mole people. The world is a grand place. Don’t you think? At least I think so. Even with all the crazy conspiracy theorists. Or mostly crazy.

I’m not going to lie, I believe one of them. As my friend has told me many times before, Hillary Clinton has put hits out on people that don’t follow her agenda, i.e. she kills people. I don’t entirely put it past her, but then again, I don’t put it past many politicians for murder. This is probably the only one I believe. I don’t doubt that most people who will read this will already think I’m crazy just by glancing over the past statement. I know I can’t convince you I’m not crazy but you’ll just have to take my word for it. Anyway, I’m going to move away from my own personal insanity and push it towards others.

Let’s start with an oldie but a goodie. The Flat Earth theory. Sounds archaic, doesn’t it? That’s because it is. Even more archaic than Roman culture or the pyramids. You can probably take a guess as to what it pertains to. Some people believe that the Earth is flat or, rather, a disk. The idea has many supporters despite the monumental evidence saying otherwise. Giving a quick google search you can see they even have a reddit page with over 800 readers. It’s a fascinating theory with plenty of flaws but non-the-less interesting.

Next comes the lizard people. This mostly revolves around politics and can sometimes be related to the illuminati or a secret society bent on taking over the world with money and power. What I’ve heard about this is that politicians are nothing, but skin walkers. Monsters portraying trust worthy people in order to trick the human race into thinking they’re safe. Tricking them into thinking they’ll have lower taxes and they’ll leave the middle east.

The final example I’ll give is the Mandela effect. This is a fairly new one that came out sometime in 2010. The concept started when people realized that Nelson Mandela wasn’t dead, having thought that he died in the 1980’s during his imprisonment. The theory is that a parallel universe has collided with ours mixing our timelines together. Another example of the Mandela effect is whether or not Berenstein Bears is “Berenstain Bears”. A one letter change and everyone goes crazy, I suppose.

My two cents on the matter of conspiracy theories is not great. I am not a scholar and I do not know the intricacies of some of the bigger conspiracy theories. I only know the ones that entertain me the most. Which is exactly how I see it. Entertainment. When boredom kicks in, Alltime Conspiracies on YouTube tends to cure what ails me. I still remember learning about Big Foot and the Bermuda Triangle as a kid. I used to see them as facts and now I see them as fantastical fictions. It’s fun to think that the government is starting an army under the Wal-Marts of America or that Moth Man is out to get you, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I believe them. Except for that one about Hillary Clinton. She looks like she’s up to some shady business.

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