#paraphrasing Captain Disillusion and Lemon Demon Spirit Phone here lol

[bisonofyesterday]

I've been reading a lot of conspiracy theories lately for fun and it's wild, sure, a glimpse into the mind of an insane person, but honestly it does kinda get boring after a while once you recognize all of the tropes

It's a real thing that happens and it was a fear for me at first but now? I genuinely don't get how "conspiracy reading for fun" could act as a pipeline to being a conspiracy theorist, like are you stupid?? Were you already susceptible to this brand of thought??? Literally all of these are either odd interpretations of economics, wishful thinking, reboots of antisemitism, or just plain regular bullshit, and like it's really easy to see that, like all of this is dumb, people who believe this are dumb, it's absurd

Fantastic fiction though, these could be good books or games or movies, and like that's what they are and that's their primary audience, people who want to pretend they're the protagonist of a movie, of a grand plot, every bad thing doesn't just happen or are perpetrated some random disturbed people! It's an organized movement at the top of everything responsible for every bad thing ever to keep us in line! It can be a kind of anti-religion in that sense, malevolent gods are better than none

There HAS to be gods at the top of it all, who put ridiculous references to themselves in everything and monolithically control the entire world, because if no one is in control, then that'd be terrifying

#paraphrasing Captain Disillusion and Lemon Demon Spirit Phone here lol #Qanon is definitely the most recent and the most movie of these #especially in its ridiculousness. if there's a deep state. why would the fucking PRESIDENT be our number one bulwark against them??? #it's all insane bullshit lol #i also wanted to talk about how the Moon Landing can act as a gateway drug conspiracy theory but I didn't know how to bring it up 😔 #it's because literally the only way it could work is if everyone involved agreed to keep it a secret #and one of those parties was the Soviet Union who would've had EVERYTHING TO GAIN by leaking that the US had faked the Moon Landing #also its a GOOD THING to recognize tropes actually!! thats how you can recognize bullshit when someone tries to sell it to you #which is becoming more common in the US now than ever for some reason #also also this isn't to say that conspiracies in all forms don't exist. they absolutely can (COINTELPRO comes to mind) #it's very easy for a group of evil people to exist and do secret evil things. this includes everything from the government to the mafia #but those are small scale though. and you're trying to tell me that folks can do that GLOBALLY??? for HUNDREDS of YEARS????????? #the US government can't even agree with itself all the time. and you mean to tell me that there's a united global cabal in control of all??? #have you even SEEN the UN???? lmaooooooo #insert pearl steven universe quote here (you know the one) #bisonspeaks #conspiracy