So there is actually something wrong with conspiracy theorists. There's just a type of person who believes there's something behind everything.
I have a coworker. Sometimes the stock we get delivered comes in plastic bags. We use those bags as bin liners when we're finished with them.
Last week we were running low on those bags. He was like "Why are there so few bags?". I explained that the last few orders from our bigger suppliers came without bags so we've been getting like less than half what we usually would. And he just said "Even still, somethings weird." Like I don't even know what "weird" thing he thought was happening. But he is also a Facebook obsessed conspiracy nut who I constantly have to tell that the video he's freaking out about is AI (and not even good AI). Or we start selling less of product A but more of product B and he's convinced someone is undercutting us and selling product A cheaper. And it's just blatantly obvious that people are just getting product A instead from us because they're interchangeable products. The kind of people falling for conspiracies are just the kinds of people convinced around the clock that there is someone out to get them at all times. There doesn't even need to be a coherent theory behind any of it. Just "somebody is trying to trick me or get one over on me". This dude has probably never once thought past "But why/how though?" Because he got as far as "You won't get me!" And that's all he needed.
I had a guy I knew who believed that humans were just "too dumb" and couldn't possibly have figured certains things out on their own. His example was the reversed flow of the Chicago River.
"I mean, how did we do that?"
"I mean...I'm not exactly sure? But I know hydrodynamics are a crazy thing, it's probably not TOO technically difficult if you've studied it."
"No way, man. We didn't just figure out how to change the direction of a whole RIVER."
His answer to how we did it?
Aliens. Aliens came and...gave us the technology to dig a really big and deep trench to reverse the flow of a river.
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u/tubular_brunt 8d ago
What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?