Not Interested In Conspiracy Theorists

I realized they would get riled up over the post where I went on about Jack Parsons, et al., but I’m not giving any of that a platform, don't want to see any comments with links or wordfloods about vaccines, save it for your therapist.

The reason I went through a phase where I was interested in occultism, fringe religions, conspiracies, the paranormal, et al., was because I have a lifelong obsession with bullshit detection and I didn’t want some conspiracy creep trying to one-up me with their alleged hidden knowledge. As a result I know a lot more about mystery cults, Masonic initiations, etc. than a lot of other people. But it wasn't an ongoing thing. 

It led me toward an obsession with law, and with the kind of evidence that stands up in court. Some of my friends from back then went to the dark side and are making their own conspiracy videos, and probably making bank ripping people off. There are plenty of gullible customers in the sea. That’s not where I went; I was more like “a lot of money would change hands if these conspiracies were true so why isn’t that happening?” 

And then I got old and boring, and decided actually learning about evidence and proof was more interesting than obsessing about other people having parties that I’m not invited to, and … I just sort of dropped out of the Mysterious Knowledge circuit. I had the answers I needed and all that X-Files type drama just got stale and cringey as new generations mutated it, and then the internet was invented, making fact-checking much easier for those who seek it. Most people don’t. 

In fact, I’m getting cynical enough to believe that most people would rather stab their best friend over an unconformed rumor than confirm it, but maybe that’s just the people I’ve been around. Conspiracy theorists are the kind of people who do lots of uncompensated PR legwork for unconfirmed rumor.  Hoping maybe then the popular kids will like them. 

I’m not going to platform that junk, or respond to it, or “debate” it, because you can’t debate with people who live in their own little postmodern bubble where they get to make up all their own facts and decide what they feel “truth” is, all you can do is smile and wave goodbye as they head off to their next adventure.