These days everyone smart and educated wants to be a 'no-BS' skeptic type person. That means categorically rejecting anything that smells like certain kinds of "low-brow" thought. What I wrote trips the "conspiracy theory" heuristic, so it gets tossed.
It's a lazy cheap heuristic. If you took what's happening today and went back in time 20 years and posted about it on the 1990s Internet, even the wacko conspiracy nuts would call you crazy.
You don't even need a time machine to see the truth in what you've said. Remember the seemingly absurd "silent black helicopters" of conspiracy lore? Then look what was revealed during the bin Laden raid. Of course plenty of people were calling 1984 conspiratorial drivel as well. The world of today puts that to shame.
api|10 years ago
It's a lazy cheap heuristic. If you took what's happening today and went back in time 20 years and posted about it on the 1990s Internet, even the wacko conspiracy nuts would call you crazy.
mirimir|10 years ago
brbsix|10 years ago
chillwaves|10 years ago