by smeeagain2 | 2025-12-27 21:32:07+00:00
> It makes me worry that what if my belief that I'm rational is also skewed...

Let's test how worried you really are.

Do you believe any/all of the following:

* Humans landed on the moon in 1969 in what basically amounts to a cardboard box with mylar duct taped over it and no radiation shielding at all, rode a dune buggy around a bit and played some golf, then got bored and came home. Nobody has been able to replicate it since. The telemetry tapes from all this were accidentally overwritten with old Scooby Doo reruns and we have completely forgotten how to build rocket engines and all the other primitive tech, or a thousand other excuses, so that's why we haven't gone back. Those who point out inconsistencies and obvious lies/fakery in the photos or scientific claims, or that one of the "moon rocks" brought back and given to a foreign government was recently tested and found to actually be petrified wood, are just crazies to be ignored, hated, laughed at, and shunned.

* Ebola really existed. It was on a tear, getting ready to kill us all, had arrived on US shores and everything, spreading like wildfire....but then its long-feared and hated enemy (the day of Congressional midterm elections) arrived, and in terror it ran back to Africa the very next day and has never been heard from since.

* Flu shots cure the flu; it's a scientific fact. Only problem is, it's a guessing game whether the vaccination will target the right strain or not, so there's only a 5% chance it will actually be cured and 95% chance you will get the flu like clockwork, within a week or two of getting the shot. That's just your personal bad luck and maybe they will get things right next year. Meanwhile ignore all the crazy people claiming it's the flu shot that actually gave you the flu, making other ridiculous claims like they don't get shots and never get sick, etc; all lies.

* COVID likewise is going to kill everyone and you'd better get your shot, citizen, or you will die. Ignore all the crazies raising serious questions about a supposed "vaccine" that was "developed" in like 3 weeks by a methhead pulling 168 hour weeks in a lab somewhere. (All the money went into his meth habit and weed stash which was the key essential ingredient in developing a vaccine so fast, vs the typical years or decades of trials it would have taken otherwise.) Also, masks are a smart idea and work very well.

* All these people who suddenly got it in their heads all at once that the Earth is flat, or there's 5G receivers in vaccines, or a thousand other crackpot ideas, suffering sudden mass delusions, are just millions upon millions of individual crazies who spontaneously thought up these "theories" all at once; there's definitely no evidence of outside manipulation and chicanery going here at all. Certainly not US intelligence agencies pulling the strings behind all this.

* Climate change is going to kill us all. CO2, far from being one of the most important chemicals of life, is the enemy. We will solve the problem by making everyone pay tax on their CO2 emissions. But don't worry, we will never suddenly discover that people emit CO2 with every breath they take and from that conclude that we should tax people every time they take a breath, for example. That would be unthinkable.

* None of these various events above are connected in any way. It's all random happenstance. There's certainly no unified cabal of criminals producing and directing this show. That's inconceivable and ridiculous. Nope, it's all just a great big coincidence. That's why Coincidence Theorists are true heroes who are always fighting those terrible Conspiracy Theorists and their batshit idea that all is this is connected and that by understanding it, maybe we can do something about it. Absurd.

Would you like to go on? And on, and on, and on down the rabbit hole...?