i got nothing but (tough) love for conspiracy theorists

i consider myself a skeptic at heart. for that reason, from time to time, i find that i identify in some ways with conspiracy theorists... in the sense that they never want to believe what major media outlets are telling them. and i totally get that. it's really tough to take corporate sponsored media at its word 100% of the time. i don't think it's all complete bullshit that they're pedaling, but i'd never be shocked to learn that some of it is utter hogwash as well.

but my bond with conspiracy theorists pretty much ends there. then there's a fork in the road. i habitually question everything and in the end i feel like i'll never have a full grasp on anything and i've sorta accepted that and i deal with it. i'm constantly clouded with uncertainty about a lot of stuff, especially as related to current events. conspiracy theorists however take it into the complete opposite direction. not only do they know that what the media is reporting is bullshit, but they do know the truth, the truth that "they (the man, the powers that be, the shadowy puppet masters)" are trying to hide from you.

conspiracy theorists have their place in our society and to a certain extent i even think they serve a necessary function for the rest of us. as much as some people might not like to hear it, we need a group of people who constantly remind us that the government's out to get us or that there's some sorta secret cabal behind the curtain manipulating everything for their own personal gain. all of it, most of it, or some of it may not be true but we probably should exercise a bit of mistrust when it comes to the powers that be. blindly accepting everything they throw at us can be extremely dangerous for our well being.

it's just that a lot of these conspiracies are hard to buy into. none of them are ever proven beyond a reasonable doubt. and it seems that every conspiracy has some sorta faulty logic that makes it easy to disprove. now more than ever, with the internet and all, for every conspiracy theorist out there, there's another voice trying to debunk them. the deeper you get into it, the more you realize it's an almost unending sequence of debunkers debunking each other. and it's when you find yourself climbing down this rabbit hole that you may at some point think, "fuck it. i'm gonna go hang out with josh in his cloud of uncertainty."

maybe one day a conspiracy theorist somewhere will nail it. but i'm still waiting for that first major victory. so far, i don't think they have one. i don't think there's any conspiracy theory they can hang their hat on and say, "see, i told you so." conspiracy theories pop up so quick these days, it all seems very rushed and as a result, sloppy. slow down a bit. you're trying to prove some heavy, major shit. in many ways, the conspiracy theorists are just as guilty as major, corporate sponsored news outlets of rushing stories just to say they said it first. 

on that miraculous day when (/if) a conspiracy theory is proven to be correct beyond all doubt, it's gonna be hard for the rest of us to buy into. not because we don't wanna believe it, but because it's hard to take conspiracy theories serious. it's like the boy who cried wolf. you kept crying and crying and every time you did, it turned out to be utter bullshit. stop drowning the rest of us with inaccurate conspiracy fantasies. by doing so, you're only gonna make it harder for everyone else to seriously answer the call when (/if) you finally do get it right.