I was at the park and the grandmother of the kid my daughter was playing managed to hit the nutball triad, going on about : Vaccines are evil, Earth is flat and chemtrails. Then she ended with the cherry on top that while she wasn't completely certain, she was starting to suspect the whole conspiracy of world leaders being disguised reptilian race, or maybe aliens. Then tried to get me come visit her "spiritual center" (read new agey cult)
This does happen, One of the People that I work with legitimately believes that,
A - The earth is flat.
B - Vaccines were created by the government to make people sick or weaken them.
C - The top 1% are either aliens, or Illuminati connected to the aliens.
He once told me that the Royal Family owns around 95% of the gold in the world and that they have made a deal with the aliens and are trading the gold for technology and weapons. I asked him what aliens would want with gold?
His response: 'Have you seen in the movies, when a space craft enters the atmosphere, it burns up before it can reach the earth, the aliens use the gold to cover their spaceships so that when it enters our atmosphere, it will reflect off of the gold.
I then asked him how does the earth have an atmosphere/Ozone layer if it's flat. He said that something has to keep the space out.
I know a couple people like this. The really scary ones, IMO, are the ones who are trying to rewrite history and political theory by convincing people that nazism is a far left political ideology rather than far right. These people actually have an affect on everyday life for many americans as they can go out and vote and change the course of our history.
We have an obligation as a society to mock and shun these people. In the age of technology that we live in, there is no excuse for anyone to have these wrong ideas. It's worse than a bad idea, it's a willfully ignorant idea.
A - The earth is flat.
B - Vaccines were created by the government to make people sick or weaken them.
C - The top 1% are either aliens, or Illuminati connected to the aliens.
He once told me that the Royal Family owns around 95% of the gold in the world and that they have made a deal with the aliens and are trading the gold for technology and weapons. I asked him what aliens would want with gold?
His response: 'Have you seen in the movies, when a space craft enters the atmosphere, it burns up before it can reach the earth, the aliens use the gold to cover their spaceships so that when it enters our atmosphere, it will reflect off of the gold.
I then asked him how does the earth have an atmosphere/Ozone layer if it's flat. He said that something has to keep the space out.