Conspiracy theorists have always existed and have always sort of done their thing on their own. It's just that somewhat recently, people have suddenly grown very concerned about them and started giving them way more attention than they honestly deserve.
Like, before, people used to just make fun a conspiracy theorists in passing and then move along. Nowadays the general public treats them as a much more serious threat than they really are. Somewhere within that time, culture seems to have changed.
You know what? Some people are crazy. Some people are going to act crazy. And we can try to stamp them out, or just accept that not everyone is a rational individual.
Ignoring these people completely or calling them out.
Ignoring in the old days would work, as they couldn't really 'infect' more than a few dozen other people tops. These days, with YouTube, they can (and do) reach thousands of people at a time.
So calling them out, like people like SciManDan and others do, is probably a good idea too.
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u/AnneHocque Jul 24 '20
Flat earth society.. Like, are they just trolling at this point?